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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: What I mean is that when the rejection takes place, is it a rejection by the respondent or the claimant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Mr. Watkins cannot speak for cases that are settled elsewhere, but in terms of the Injuries Board's own figures, has there been any increase in the amount that was awarded in terms of claims or in the volume of claims between 2015 and 2014, for example?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The insurance companies talk quite a lot about fraud. Is fraud something that the Injuries Board has a category for and statistically takes note of to say that it rejected X number of claims because it believed that they were fraudulent? Does the Injuries Board have those figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Okay. So they are accepting whatever percentage-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Okay. That is useful. Are there reforms that the witnesses think could be implemented that would make the work of the Injuries Board more effective and bring more people under its remit? What are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: They are not getting it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: How much is full membership?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Insurance Ireland runs ads from time to time around the question of fraud. In some of them, the slogan it used contained the phrase "taking money from your pockets" and was very memorable. The evidence from witnesses who have come before the committee in the past week and a half indicates that what has been happening is a major campaign of spin on the part of the insurance industry. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: We will come to the statistics in a second. I will also return to the question of profits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, on the "Pat Kenny Show", someone from the Insurance Industry said the reason more stuff was not settled at the Injuries Board was the responsibility of the claimants and the lawyers. I put that to the Injuries Board and its spokespersons said that was not the case. They said that in more cases the responsibility was on the insurance companies, because they have first refusal....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: I will return to the point about data. Listening to the earlier words of the witnesses, one would get the impression that things are very transparent but then they rowed back a little bit from that. Mr. Thompson referenced the report for 2013, that came out in October 2015. In this report, the Central Bank stated that in the context of the data provided it was not possible to obtain a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: The core point missing from the picture is the insurance figures produced by the Central Bank showing the profits year by year. For those insurance companies with headquarters in Ireland, the profit on motor insurance over 20 years is €2.86 billion. That is a lot of money and a very profitable industry. It is a return on premiums of approximately 12%, which is high by, for example,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: I fundamentally disagree. Profit is a transfer from those who pay the premiums to the insurance companies. That is unnecessary. It is an extra cost. For example, if there was a non-profit State-run model, it would not happen. That would be €2.6 billion over 20 years that would be in car owners' pockets instead of the pocket of insurance companies. There is discrimination...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (16 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 251. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a review of regulations regarding motor insurance in view of the practice of many motor insurance companies denying coverage to cars over ten years or older; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25118/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (16 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the policy of not permitting special needs assistants, SNAs, who took redundancy prior to 1 May 2014 to be employed in full-time SNA positions, especially in view of the fact that the option of taking panel rights instead of a redundancy payment was available to these workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (16 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 576. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amount of money that has been budgeted for the work of the Expert Commission on Water Charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24790/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Cases (16 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 843. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the hunger strike of a person (details supplied) in detention in Israel; if he will report on any representations on the matter he or his Department has made with the Israeli state; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25076/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (16 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 848. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline his views on the detention of a person (details supplied) in Iran; the representations he or his Department have made to the Iranian authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25697/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (16 Sep 2016)

Paul Murphy: 965. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos 873 and 874 of 14 April 2016, if she will confirm that the inaugural official National Famine Commemoration Day took place in 2008 as indicated by a press statement (details supplied) which announces this year's commemoration as the 9th consecutive year in which the National Famine...