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- 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: How would it work?
- 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 presume guidelines are guidelines and are unlikely to be binding. When are they likely to be published?
- 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: That gives us some hope that people are, or will become, aware that making such claims will result in an automatic examination of the issue by the relevant members of the Garda and so on.
- 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 have a final point on that issue. Before an insurance company settles, should there be an onus on it to go back to the insured person and let him or her know? We have sometimes heard of a claim against a business - a sprained ankle for example - being settled for €15,000 or €20,000 to get rid of it. The publican, restaurateur, supermarket owner, takeaway owner or whoever...
- 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: It might change the behaviour of the company slightly in respect of just paying out and being done with it?
- 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: There are no plans to do that anyway?
- 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 thank the Minister of State for all the work he is doing. I look forward to my motor insurance coming down along with everybody else.
- 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 have been shopping around and I did not get a better deal. Perhaps I was on a very good deal in the first place. I do not know.
- 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 am definitely a very low risk. I hope everybody is watching. I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending. The joint committee is now adjourned until Tuesday, 12 June. I remind members who are Deputies that the select committee is meeting this Thursday, 31 May, at 10. a.m. to deal with Committee Stage of the Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I move:That Seanad Éireann:recognises that:- the Local Property Tax (LPT) was introduced in 2013 and current valuations are from that year; - the primary purpose of LPT is to provide funding for local services; - Fine Gael wrongly diverted 30 per cent of the revenue in 2014 to Irish Water; - initially the revaluation date was set for November 2016, this was changed to November 2019,...
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: That deletes our motion.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Senator is proposing to delete the motion.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: He is being reasonable for now.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Senator Paddy Burke might consider withdrawing his amendment.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I did not have the benefit of that.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Senator should read the motion.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Actually, he is not.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I thank the other nine Senators and the Minister of State, despite Senator Lawlor's attempt to annoy everybody and wind everybody up. I realise he is only back in the Houses and is probably a bit riled up but there is no suggestion at all in this motion that the property tax be abolished.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Senator's colleague congratulated me on the motion before moving the amendment to delete it. I thank Senator Paddy Burke for his kind words.
- Seanad: Local Property Tax: Motion (30 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Exactly. I thank Senator Paddy Burke very much for his kind words. I reassure Senator Lawlor that abolition is not proposed anywhere. None of us referred to it. It is not what we are about. I acknowledge much of what is in the Minister of State's speech. It is very reasonable. Much of it is stating the status quo, with which many of us, particularly those of us on the finance committee,...