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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: I am raising it on behalf of taxi drivers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: A constituent of mine is being charged €11,700 and the most recent and only time this committee met was a year and a half ago. The Minister of State with responsibility for the insurance industry can say he is doing a fine job but, by God, he is not. Let me come to the issue of fraud.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The recommendation is there in black and white.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State not think this is his responsibility? Why has the advisory committee not met for the past year and a half?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: This is one of the recommendations.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State do the right thing and ditch the idea of a private industry funding a section of An Garda Síochána? We heard the Garda Commissioner discuss Garda concerns about this. The Minister of State should do the right thing and ensure his Government colleagues support what this committee is seeking, namely, a publicly funded fraud squad within the Garda. It is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State wants to establish a new section.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: It is in his recommendation. He should not misinterpret the position. He wants to set up a new section in the Garda to be funded by private industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Let us establish the section and get it up and running.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: No, I did.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: I accepted that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State is ignoring that his recommendations have not been implemented.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: He comes in here, year after year, after the fact. He is completely failing this industry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: He is completely and utterly failing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Of course it is not the case. The insurance companies would agree to the protocol if that was the case. I apologise for interrupting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: It might be worth the Minister of State's time to take a serious look into a mirror occasionally.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: That attack was wrong. The Minister of State's officials are telling him whether the protocols are implemented. It seems he does not even know himself.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: 190. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal for illness benefit will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47458/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: 236. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has received notification of a proposal from Donegal County Council to establish an emergency deprivation task force, consisting of various State agencies and Departments dedicated to the development of the Donegal Gaeltacht region; her views on the proposal of the local authority; and if she will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: 238. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has received notification of a proposal from Donegal County Council to establish an emergency deprivation task force, consisting of various State agencies and Departments, dedicated to the development of the Donegal Gaeltacht region; if her Department has to date responded to the proposal; and if she will make a statement...