Results 2,701-2,720 of 10,460 for speaker:Gerry Horkan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: If there were two or three actions the delegates would like to implement first in the next six or 12 months, what would they be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: That is No. 1.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Is FBD settling because court is such a problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: That is what results in the 40% disappearing.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Does Mr. Cahalan have those figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, will be before the committee on Tuesday afternoon. Are there any points the witnesses want to make to him or want us to ask him?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I have one final question. There are anecdotal stories of businesses that are literally unable to continue in business because their insurance premiums have risen so much. Are the witnesses aware of any businesses that have had to fold and have just said they could not keep going? It may not be FBD's fault as such, but have any of its customers, having received a figure, found they just...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Are marts inherently more risky, or is it just a matter of the claims history? Has there been a recent spike in claims? We had representatives from the marts before the committee earlier saying that in recent years they had a serial complainant who seems to have got two or three payments from a sore toe or something. I am not saying it was necessarily one of FBD's marts, but are marts...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: On behalf of Senator O'Donnell, myself and all the other members of the committee, I thank Mr. McMahon and Mr. Cahalan for their presentations and their presence.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Before we adjourn, I wish to announce that the committee has agreed that EU legislative proposals COM (2018)134 and COM (2018)135 warrant further scrutiny by the committee. The committee also agreed that EU legislative proposal COM (2018)163 does not warrant further scrutiny.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: As we have a quorum, we will commence. I propose that we go into private session to deal with housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I do not want to interrupt but a vote is being called in the Seanad and both Senator Conway-Walsh and I could participate. We can agree to suspend the meeting and come back at 6.30 p.m.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Senator is okay so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: We will keep going for a couple of minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I wish to clarify a few matters. There was talk that the national claims information database would be available in the second half of 2018 but now it is said that it definitely will not be before 2019.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Would it be unrealistic to expect it before 2019 at this point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: One would hope it would be up and running. Obviously it will become more useful over time because one is relying on more volumes of data. Will it be the first quarter or first half of 2019?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. An anti-fraud unit was recommended. The Minister of State touched on it already but is he asking if we want to take gardaí off the beat or the front line?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: We had representatives of the Alliance for Insurance Reform before the committee last week. I do not know if any of the Minister of State's officials got a chance to watch that meeting, and I presume he was doing other things. Point No. 8 of their submission states:The CIWG motor insurance reports promised a dedicated Garda unit to focus exclusively on the investigation of insurance fraud....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Have any specific parties said they are not in favour of this?