Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 July 2019

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

Insurance Fraud: Discussion

Mr. Pat Lordan:

Not really. The majority of these cases are not even reported to the Garda when the accident occurs. It is reported, maybe as a minor accident, and then a couple of months later the five or six claims are submitted to the insurance company. In most of these cases, there is no camera because it will be the culprit's car. If the driver is working together with another party, they will make sure that they do not have any cameras in their cars. They will also make sure that the accidents will not occur where there is any CCTV. Historically, they were not as good at that. Operation Nascar in Cork covered that fairly well but now we find that they are careful about selecting the location of where they will have their accidents.