Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 December 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

Access to Justice and Legal Costs: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Gerry Hassett:

I do accept that. Based on the Central Bank report, which I accept, I accept that is not true. I want to put some context on this - I think I placed the same context at the time. Actually, I was relying on data that had been shared in the market. It was third party data. Insurance Ireland has no access to price information. We should not have access to price information from any of our member companies either. The only data source we had at that time was the Central Statistics Office data. The data we quoted relating to 2017 were CSO data. One could look at the CSO data and the Central Bank report and question it because they do not line up.