Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This shows that this is clearly not even in the right ballpark. It is incredible. I know of a situation in which a family with a young child who had a small cut, not a serious cut, in 2014 made a claim again in 2019. We know of situations in which claims for about €6,000 are going to court but are resulting in legal costs of €26,000. How can the Minister of State stand over a system such as this? How can he stand over a system in which the legal costs are so high that only about 6% of claims make it to court and in which the insurance company just settles in 94% of the cases because of the legal costs involved? What about regulating claims management companies? What about setting up a Garda insurance fraud squad? The Minister of State promised a Garda insurance fraud squad. Where is it?

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