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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I accept that. Is the auditing system robust and strenuous in respect of those issues?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Are you confident that we have the infrastructure to deal with that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Are you confident that we have the competency available to do that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Thank you. Mr. Sloyan, have you any further remarks? Do you have any thoughts on the study on the impact of the further increases in the health levy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I thank the witnesses most sincerely for their patience this afternoon and I apologise again for the delay. I thank each and every one of you for being here. I thank the members of the committee and those in the Public Gallery.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In the context of that question, how many people have left the market since October when the witnesses were last with the committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: What does that mean to the ordinary person who is paying the premium?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: What is the benefit to the person who is paying the premium?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: In the context of the discussion we are having now and your reply.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Let us use plain, simple language. I am at home filling out my form or applying online or on the phone. What is the implication for me as an ordinary citizen or for people watching these proceedings?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: No. In the changing of the premium and the changing of the benefits.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: If that hypothesis is taken to its logical conclusion, there is no benefit to having private health insurance. I have to pay for a procedure. I do not mean to be offensive, but is it potentially the case that we have got it wrong in terms of the advice the HIA is giving the Department on health insurance? We have seen a 56% increase in the premium paid per insured person from the time...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Are the health insurers being fair in the way they deal with their customers? Mr. Sloyan probably heard them give us their own story this morning. They are looking at it through their own prism. Their focus is to make revenue for themselves. While that is their prerogative, are they playing fair with everybody?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: Has the HIA carried out any study on the impact further levy increases will have on falling numbers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: We have had that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I want Senator Burke's question to be answered, to be fair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: To be fair, Senator Burke asked a question. Dr. Lynch, on Senator Burke's point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: There is a vote at 2.30 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I admire the Deputy's brevity. I call Senator Colm Burke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Insurance Levy: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)
Jerry Buttimer: I will bring in Mr. Ryan and then come back to the Deputy.