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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I will come to that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I am going to come to reinsurance. Mr. Horan should not try to second-guess my question. We know that net incurred claims dropped from 2014 to 2017. I am using that period because it was a period in which motor insurance premiums increased by in excess of 50%. Mr. Horan will argue, as he has done, that he has to include the cost of reinsurance. The difference between written gross...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I understand that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: To repeat the question, the difference between the gross written premium and the net written premium would be the reinsurance part of it. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Between 2014 and 2017, gross written premium increased by what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: That would be €700 million extra that motorists would have paid compared with 2014. Would that be correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: That is right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: That would also increase the number of claims. Claims reduced substantially during that period because there were more motorists and one would think there should have been more claims, but that was not the case. They actually-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Okay, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Yes, absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Going back to the point, as a population, motorists paid €700 million more in 2017 compared with 2014. That is correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I know that. Mr. Horan has made that point. Will he just accept the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: We understand that. We are talking about the total. As Mr. Horan said, reinsurance is an issue. Mr. Horan is making the point that the net figure, which is what was incurred by the insurance industry in terms of payouts and claims, fell during that period but that we need to look at reinsurance. When Mr. Horan takes the issue of reinsurance into account, did people still pay more? Did...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: There is a direct link between the net premium earned and the net claims incurred because net claims incurred not only include the claims paid out in that calendar year but the provisioning for future claims in future years. Is that not the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I know, but there is provisioning on the basis of the risk profile within the population at that time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: I have a few brief questions. One of Insurance Ireland's aims is to ensure that the industry protects consumers. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Does Mr. Hassett believe it is fair that when somebody amends their insurance policy, he or she can be charged up to 50% of the premium they are charged? I will give him two examples. I will not mention any company. A husband who is putting his wife as a named driver on his policy enters the date of birth inaccurately. He puts down 1959 as 1958. He spots the inaccuracy, telephones the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: What about a person living in the Gaeltacht who gets an insurance policy from the insurance company and notices on the documentation that it misspells the Irish language address on the policy. That person asks for it to be corrected and is charged €175 for that pleasure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: What is Mr. Hassett's view of the fact that insurance companies are pricing young motorists off the road, which unfortunately in some cases is leading some of them to drive without insurance, which is wrong? A case in point is a 17 year old who contacted me who is looking for third-party fire and theft cover for his own car. He is a provisional licence holder, so he would have to be...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Pearse Doherty: Why is the market so broken? We are fleecing such young drivers.