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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)

Michael D'Arcy: Which investigations?

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)

Michael D'Arcy: I will not comment on that.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: The establishment will depend on the Oireachtas.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: Yes, it would be.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: I am hopeful it will be sooner rather than later. There will not be any delay from our side of the House.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: That is a question the Garda Commissioner will have to answer.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: What I have been told is that not everybody is in agreement with the removal of gardaí from policing duties to be deployed to an anti-fraud unit.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: People have said it to me in private, but I do not know if they have said it in public. That is the information I have.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: I am in two minds, but my opinion does not matter. It is a matter for the Garda Commissioner.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: The Minister for Justice and Equality.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: I have asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to progress this. My view does not matter. It is part of the report and we are trying to implement it. I have asked the Minister to speak to the Garda Commissioner when the new Commissioner is appointed.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: I do not believe so. It is a matter for the incoming Garda Commissioner.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: I do not.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: Yes.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: It used to be three years. The period in which somebody has an opportunity to make a claim has been reduced from three years to two years.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: It was 2004.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: Yes. It is appropriate that somebody should have a period in which he or she can make a claim.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: Two years.

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)

Michael D'Arcy: We have looked at that and we think a two-year period is relevant. Somebody might have an accident and some symptoms may not show up for some time. What the Vice Chairman is talking about is dealt with in section 8 of the Civil Liability and Courts Act 2004. It is the same Act that refers to the period in which somebody must present. With regard to the data protection rules, we are going...

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)

Michael D'Arcy: That is correct. They have the two-year period following that to make the claim. There is an important aspect to this. That section of the law stands at two months, but it has not been used. The next stage is section 14. If people do not give the insured person the opportunity to retain the imagery or the CCTV footage, an inference can be taken by the court against the individual because...