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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: In determining the increase or decrease in insurance fraud, do we not have any empirical data from before 2018?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Does Mr. Lordan believe it needs to be made an offence?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: If the absence of an offence of insurance fraud creates difficulty for the Garda, it would obviously need to be classed as a crime.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: These offences are all categorised now and the Garda has been able to measure and monitor them since 2018.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: The witnesses referred to the pilot projects, one of which is in County Mayo. How would an insurance company report insurance fraud differently under one of these projects? Will the witnesses would talk me through the steps involved?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: To clarify, where is this administrative work done? Is the team in Castlebar?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: There is an administrative team there dealing with insurance fraud only.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: It is not particular to insurance fraud.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: How long has the pilot project been running?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Is it too soon to tell what the outcomes are?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: In terms of the training that is being done, what does that constitute? For example, for how long will a garda or sergeant be trained in insurance fraud?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: For how many days does the training last?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: With regard to competing resources, the court is trying to take insurance fraud more seriously. Are additional resources ring-fenced? Is this taking away from community policing and other areas where policing is needed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Why did the Garda pick Mayo for the pilot project?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: When will the pilot project be completed?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: Does Mr. Twomey believe the Garda is very late in the day coming to this in respect of insurance fraud?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: The numbers are very small. I suggest that insurance fraud be put on the agenda of all the joint policing committees. New committees will be starting up following the local authority elections. Putting insurance fraud on the agenda would be good for raising awareness and encouraging people to report it. It would let people know what the Garda are doing about it and what to expect if they...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (10 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Catherine Byrne, for coming to the House to respond to my Commencement matter on the status of the levodopa-carbidopa intestinal gel, LCIG, known as Duodopa. The medicine is used to treat advanced Parkinson's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects 12,000 people in Ireland. The uncertainty around the availability...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (10 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State for her response. I ask her to ask the Minister, or the HSE directly, to sit down with the manufacturer and negotiate on the price of the drug. I understand the processes involved, the limited resources and everything else around it. However, can the Minister of State imagine what it must be like to be patient No. 82 in this situation? I cited the example of...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products Availability (10 Jul 2019)
Rose Conway Walsh: I very much appreciate that. Could the Minister of State ask the Minister if it could be included in the July meeting, if at all possible?