Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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Some properties have no fire or open fire or they have heat pumps. There is no reduction in people's premiums where there is no risk of sparks going up the flue.

Surely, the insurance companies have a responsibility to those kinds of people and premiums should be coming down.

Coming back to something Ms Murdock said earlier in the opening statement, there is a greater risk to "rural thatched properties, given their remote location and distance from fire services". I would imagine those houses have not moved since they were built and are the same distance from the fire services as they were down through the years. Where is the greater risk coming from the last couple of years that they seem to have moved and are a greater distance from the fire brigade if a fire did start? Where did that come out of?