Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Discussion

10:50 am

Mr. Jim Dowdall:

I am happy to respond now. There is an opportunity to rebalance the health insurance market to split up VHI, which would provide an income stream for the Exchequer and remove the need for the Exchequer to provide a solvency bailout to the company, which could amount to €200 million. By redistributing older people-----