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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I wish our colleague Deputy Carey a full and speedy recovery. I thank Mr. Fitzgerald and Mr. O'Brien for attending. We have had a number of private session meetings as a committee and I have requested they appear before us at some point because I have a number of specific questions that do not necessarily relate to their opening statement. With regard to NCT tests, there is four-month...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: This was all made clear during the Covid pandemic, when it was explicitly stated that there was continued cover and that was very clear but it is less clear now for motorists and for An Garda Síochána in respect of enforcement. Does MIBI have a view on L-plate drivers? It is a similar and related question. In some parts of the country, including west Clare in my constituency,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: -----worst in the league table of the uninsured. It is everyone’s worst nightmare to be involved in a road traffic accident and it is worse again when the vehicle being interfaced with is uninsured, with the rigours involved to try to get some form of compensation. Nevertheless, we interface with other uninsured vehicles as we drive through traffic, such as e-scooters and e-bikes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: We have done work on that as a committee and there is a sense that these vehicles are relatively slow moving, but we have also discovered as a committee, when we looked at the realm of e-scooters, that some of them can travel at speeds of between 90 km/h and 100 km/h, without restrictors on them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Where insurance cases are not settled and go legal, is the sector finding that post-Covid backlog to be significant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I return to the question I asked about NCT tests, the four-month delays and L-plates. I get where Mr. Fitzgerald is coming from and I had expected he would not be able to say a lot, but will he tell us, as we look at a new raft of legislation, whether there are any other grey or uncertain areas? I have highlighted two, but when things are contested, what are the other grey areas or loopholes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: What of the lack of a test certificate or the out-of-date NCT certificate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Mr. Fitzgerald said of uninsured drivers that 7.8% of the cars on the road that are uninsured-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I presume that is mostly cars, or would commercial vehicles also come into that category?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: However, the witnesses have no analysis of commercial vehicles or any other types of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Mr. Fitzgerald mentioned that the do-gooders, those of us who live within the law, get our vehicles insured and so on, all pay €30 to €35 per annum-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: -----to cover those who have decided not to take out insurance or renew their insurance. Do the witnesses have any metric or figure as to what that amounts to nationally, what it is costing the Irish motorist per annum to cover those who are uninsured?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: With legislative improvements, where would MIBI see that 8.3%? Where would it expect it to land? What would be a comparable percentage in another country where there are similar-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: If the Chairman will allow me just one last question I omitted earlier, the young male driver has long been pilloried in the media as the worst offender on the roads. Does that really stack up any more, in the opinion of the witnesses, or is everyone-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Mr. Fitzgerald mentioned the uninsured and the figures were stark. I was not expecting, and I do not think many of us were expecting, Ireland to be-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 32. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Children and Education will next meet. [11545/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a company (details supplied) will resume the operation of its battery-powered ebikes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11560/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received an application from Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board in respect of granting independent school status to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11075/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Money Advice and Budgeting Service (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 441. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will urgently re-visit the funding of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service in order that the highly valued work undertaken by dedicated mortgage advisors can continue beyond the current funding expiration date of 30 November 2023; if she will consider making dedicated mortgage advisor positions permanent; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 479. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the Government will implement the optional protocol of the United Nations Convention on Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11489/23]