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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: All I am saying is that insurers settle the vast majority of cases rather than contesting them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: It is the soft option. The soft option for insurers is to settle and dump the cost of that on the people paying the premiums.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: We heard from insurance companies previously, in response to questioning from Deputy Pearse Doherty on fraudulent claims, that the number of claims being investigated or passed on to the Garda is insignificant compared with the overall number of payouts insurers are making. The figures the witnesses have cited indicate to me clearly that the soft option, the easy option, for insurers is to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: No-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: Mr. Horan is assuming the council will look at the level of awards. The personal injuries guidelines committee will look at the matter and then make a decision, but the assumption that it will drop the level of awards is false. The judges could leave the awards as the status quoor increase them. We must challenge them on that, but Insurance Ireland should not assume they could drop them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: Is the 40% in legal costs on top of the €1.3 billion, the total claims last year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: Yes or no.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: Mr. Horan said 40% earlier, though.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: This makes it look even worse for insurers because the €1.3 billion they had in 2017 relates to the cost of claims. The premiums they took in that year amounted to €2.48 billion. Are my figures wrong?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: Where did I get the figure of €2.48 billion from? It was thrown out here. I apologise for that. If the figure was €1.8 billion, that is fair enough. I cannot go down that line. The banks do insurance. I know AIB uses AXA as its product. Are the banks members of Insurance Ireland's organisations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: The witnesses have no figures to indicate to me the percentage commission they gain.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: The witnesses have no idea of the percentage of the market the banks have. The banks do not have a good record in dealing with customers, as we have seen through increases in mortgage rates and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: They would be got through the individual companies, the banks. I cannot find out anywhere what company Bank of Ireland uses. AIB clearly uses AXA.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: Jesus.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: The Senator was.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: What a hypocrite.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: Sinn Féin was in government in the North and it pulled the plug.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: She should not be hypocritical.
- Seanad: Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: The Minister of State has been to the House often and I have locked horns with him on a couple of occasions but I welcome him this evening. The budget was framed around the Brexit situation. People may say a deal has been done but it has not passed through the British Houses of Parliament and current comment in the UK suggests the person who will lead the next Government hopes to get a...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (26 Nov 2019)
Anthony Lawlor: If Senator Craughwell gets in, everyone will want to get in.