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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: May I ask about the NTMA’s investment in wave energy? There was a great belief that it would be the new gold for Ireland. It was going to feed the grid and be like Norwegian oil, manna from heaven or whatever. Is it too expensive to invest in or are we going ahead in a satisfactory way?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: No, I meant wave.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: However, the NTMA does invest in offshore wind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The NTMA does not think it is a great thing to invest in. Regarding NewERA, RTÉ is listed in that ambit in the NTMA’s briefing to us. How does the NTMA respond to the fact that RTÉ has not implemented its reforms, or so we are told?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: My final comment relates to Deputy Doherty's question. I agree that under no condition should we be investing in the murder of people on a mass scale. Obviously, the NTMA has stopped that. Does it have a general policy in that sphere? Just as it will have new governance structures in relation to the risk arising in the €5 million fraud, does it have a structure or a philosophical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Does the NTMA look to ethics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Therefore, the social impact of mass murder would rule it out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: It would look similarly at rogue regimes and whatever might arise apart from what is happening with Israel, such as what somebody was going to use it for.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The NTMA does not lend to governments, but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: But it would have a code.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the witnesses. I have come across a case or two lately of shopkeepers who had claims made against them, and the insurance companies settled the claims for “economic reasons”, which was the phrase they used. They settled them at low money, or reasonable money. My point is that the insurance companies did not challenge the case at all. Is that a general thing? If...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I have some other questions. Quickly, could this be rectified? What could the Government do to deal with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Jennings for that. We will keep an eye on it in the Seanad. I know Deputy Timmins raised this but can the witnesses delineate fairly quickly the specific obstacles to more companies coming into the market and more competition?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I thank Mr. Hanley for that. We should do something about that. The 17% premium increase and the 13% profit increases relative to 5% internationally were well referenced earlier. There are a number of elements creating those increases, but is there specific consumer law that could deal with that? Has the Alliance for Insurance Reform researched potential laws that could be used there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: None of the existing laws, but there is potential in the defamation law. That is all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: They are not doing that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: If they are going up 17% at a time of 13% profit-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Turning to my next question, Mr. Hanley will forgive me because I was up to speed with this many years ago in a role I played but I am not in that role now. If, to simplify it, I have a claim against my local shopkeeper because I fell on the floor of my local shop, why does that not automatically go the resolution board?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: -----even if I am offered fairly standard money. That begs the question - it is our issue here - whether something should be done to prevent that. If I have trouble with my employer or with a worker in the shop, they must go to the WRC and there is a process.