Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

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

Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion

Mr. Declan O'Rourke:

Typically those types of insurance programmes buy large limits, but each insurer would have a small piece and then that would end up in large programmes. Most of those insurers would be offshore. One would not understand fully and one would not even see it in the Irish insurance numbers. The answer the Deputy got about not knowing the answer was probably the correct one.