Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 9 July 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Insurance Fraud: Discussion
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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I am hard on the insurance industry, but it tells us there is no point in reporting fraud to the Garda because it does not have the resources to deal with it. We hear this from other actors as well. We are told that unless the report concerns something major and organised, like the cases Mr. Lordan refers to involving multiple claims and fake identities, it will not be investigated thoroughly. It is probably next to impossible to do so with only 20 gardaí.