Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 14: Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer

9:30 am

Mr. Adrian Varley:

I agree with our colleagues from the Department that the strengthening of the European regulation was essential. That was what was referred to as Solvency II, which is being reviewed at European level. It is important to add the local perspective, which is the supervisory side as well as the regulatory side. We are confident the system has been strengthened in the past ten years. It continues to be reviewed. There will always be smaller firms that fail and these compensation funds will be continued into the future. It is a European concept that is needed. However, the Deputy is absolutely right about the magnitude of the issue and the fact we are still paying down-----