Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has suggested that it will take a couple of months to complete the review. We need action to be taken by the insurance industry sooner than the time it will take to produce the report in a couple of months. People who want to come home are not coming home because of high motor insurance costs. The Minister said that if they are driving abroad then they can show they have a no-claims history. People from my constituency had to emigrate because of the crash and the financial crisis. They went to Sydney, Perth and London. Many of them are working in the tunnels. Those who are living in London do not need a car because they are not driving, and they will have lost their no-claims bonus even though they have been driving on the roads of Donegal and elsewhere for the past ten years. Although they have a safe record they are being charged €5,500 per year because they are considered to be among the riskiest drivers.

I tabled an amendment to the motion that was passed in the House seeking that the report be released as soon as it was completed. Could the Minister tell us whether the report of the review - or the task force, as the Minister is now calling it - will be made available to the House as soon as it is available?

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