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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is important that there is proper negotiation on the price at an early stage so that we get the current price and not multiples of that price. We would then be trying to make decisions on that cost, which would be crazy. I wish to question the Minister on the audiology failures in counties Mayo and Roscommon. I know a number of actions have been taken on that, but again we do not know...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: For the first time, yesterday evening we saw the proposed Brexit deal between the EU and the British Government. Sinn Féin rightly highlighted the danger posed to this tentative deal by the extreme Brexiteers in the Tory party and the DUP. I acknowledge that the deal agreed by the British Cabinet yesterday is one that mitigates against the worst aspects of Brexit but there are other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Most of the questions have been covered at this stage. I want to break down what the 23% figure means to the individual consumer. Is the Minister of State saying, based on the CSO figures, that if everything has remained the same for consumers in terms of the vehicle they are driving and so on, they can expect to have their insurance premium reduced by 23% this year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: If a consumer's premium is not reduced by approximately 23% - it could be more than that - is he or she being ripped off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I understand that but the figure of 23% has to mean something to people. I am trying to get a handle on this because in all honesty I have not met anyone whose insurance premium has been reduced by 23%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I will give an example from last week involving an elderly person who had a tip with her car and notified the insurance company that the car she tipped into had been slightly damaged. She went to the garage and it was fixed for less than €100. Her insurance premium was doubled. There was no insurance claim, nothing like that. She rang up the insurance and asked if the other party...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I understand the Minister but there is vagueness and ambiguity around it and what it actually means for people. That is what is causing a lot of the concern and there is frustration at how slow this is to make an impact; it is not making a difference in many people's pockets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is the Minister saying that this is almost a job done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We have gone through all of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am not at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: I really am not. I am here to do a job on behalf of the people that I represent-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: -----and I want to get to the bottom of why they are not seeing the impact of all of the recommendations that were made, even the aggregate impact of it, why it is not making a difference in people's pockets. One can go back to the 23% which I do not want to do, but when one deals with averages, one knows that this does not mean anything to many people. It still seems, from looking at all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: All of the cards are with the insurance companies. I accept what the Minister of State is saying and that he cannot instruct the industry but the buck does stop with the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Minister of State's message to people is to shop around more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: People will and do expect more from a Minister than being told to shop around.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: My insurance is not down 23%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: Has the Minister published the legislation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The legislation he is talking about.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: The Minister is saying that the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill is holding all of this up. I acknowledge that it is Fianna Fáil, the Independent Senators and Labour that are holding that up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)

Rose Conway Walsh: We can work with the Minister. I want to address the returning immigrants issue and what difference they can expect. The Minister is saying here that their driving record is to be recognised.