Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 October 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

General Scheme of Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Bill 2016 and Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Ger Deering:

I do. As has been said already, the Office of the Attorney General will obviously look at all of this in detail. There is a crossover with the Statute of Limitations. There is a distinction between a policy that is renewed every year and one that is purchased with a view to a pension in 15, 20 or 30 years time or a life insurance policy that becomes more critical as the person gets older. There will always be a distinction between those types of products. We need to look carefully at the interaction between the Statute of Limitations and the six-year rule for the one that is renewed every year. There is a distinction between them and they would be treated differently in terms of consumer-----