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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: By definition then, regarding the 75% in moneys paid out, there must be a correlation in that the reduction from 255,000 to 200,000 must involve a reduction in personal injury claims as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: From what year is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have a difficulty with time. I am-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Do the witnesses see their body having any role in terms of ghost brokers, interacting with the relevant companies and in any way recompensing the victims of those ghost brokers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: He accepts the-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The witness has made his argument about costs incurred rather than actual costs. Deputy Doherty's point is a very valid one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I understand the point about insurance companies and competition for new customers. What I find difficult to understand is where they are increasing premiums for customers who are loyal because they believe they can get away with it. How does Insurance Ireland regard that as competition? I can understand the points about getting market share. It would be expected that their financial...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Insurance Ireland condone that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Insurance Ireland condone the practice by its members, based on analysis of data, of deliberately loading premiums on customers, without any risk justification for the increase, because in all circumstances they are so loyal they will swallow the increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: No. Does Mr. Hassett condone this practice?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: No. Mr. Hassett sees nothing wrong with that practice.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: That concludes our consideration of this matter today. I thank the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, and Insurance Ireland for assisting the committee. The committee will give further consideration to the differential pricing issue in due course. We look forward to the outcome of the commission's deliberations. I hope the message goes back to the members of Insurance...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Management Companies (26 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy English, for taking time out of his busy schedule to come to this important debate. He will be aware of this issue because I have been in touch with him about it over recent weeks. Issues have arisen in the Park Retirement Village, Castletroy, over recent weeks, including the case of two long-term residents, Liz Lynam and Antoinette McEnnis, who live in...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Management Companies (26 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The people in question moved to the Park retirement village in Castletroy because they wanted to do so. Many of them sold their homes. They have lived in the retirement village houses for at least eight or nine years. These are their homes and they are where the residents want to reside. It is a Hobson's choice for them. If the houses are renovated and they are offered them back, the...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Management Companies (26 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The management company, yes.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will speak about the impact that the overcrowding in the accident and emergency department at University Hospital Limerick is having on the lives of real people. The hospital is due to get an MRI scanner.I hope that will be in place quickly. A review is under way on the operation of the hospital. I ask for that to be expedited to see exactly what specific plans we need in place over the...
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister of State might accept that.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: Correct use of English does not go out of fashion.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: I also welcome the Minister of State to the House. He has given enormous service as a Minister of State and former Member of the House. I was trying to pick out the elements of the Finance Bill about which Senator Boyhan spoke. His speech was very illuminating and good to listen to. It sounded great.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Kieran O'Donnell: The content was a small bit suspect. The grammar and syntax were in order-----