Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

This legislation proposes to make several changes to the law on risk equalisation between insurance companies, to regulate the health insurance market and - this is the main element of the Bill - to increase the health insurance levy on health insurance premiums by 10% from April of next year. I understand the Minister wrote to the insurance companies to plead with them not to pass on this increase to their customers.

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