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- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It is whatever I decide it to be as I am the Chair.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State, without interruption, please.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Let him finish and then I will let the Senator back in.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: When is it proposed to take Fifth Stage?
- Seanad: Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The purpose of today’s meeting is for the joint committee to continue to discuss motor insurance with particular reference to uninsured drivers and road safety. We are joined by Mr. David Fitzgerald and Mr. Tom O’Brien from the Motor Insurers’ Bureau of Ireland. I am pleased to welcome them here. I will read a note on privilege for both our witnesses and members....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Fitzgerald for his comprehensive opening statement. I will give everybody ten minutes, and then an additional two. The first contributor is Deputy O'Rourke.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: If we divide €70 million by €78,000, that will give the average.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: If the average is €78,000 and the total figure is €70 million, dividing one figure into the other should give us the number of incidents.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Does MIBI cover everybody? Do all uninsured vehicles end up with it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: The next slot is mine but I will give it to Senator Dooley.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: It is my own slot now. Many of the points have been covered and I thank the witnesses. When it was mentioned a few weeks ago, I said that this was a topic that we should cover. In fact, we were not sure whether it would be within our remit or that of the finance committee or the enterprise committee. The committee on enterprise covers issues like insurance, and the finance committee has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I think it is very relevant, particularly with all the other work we have done on road safety and so on. There are a few things that I want to ask about that perhaps were not covered so much earlier. To tax your car, you have to put in insurance details, which suggests that the car at least has to have an insured driver. Perhaps not everybody using the car is insured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: I will just develop the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Is it the case that I can put in the details of an insurance policy and get away with it, or is there an automatic check on the details that I put in on the company, whether it is Allianz, AXA, FBD or whoever? Is the motor tax system able to interrogate and verify that the insurance policy is a valid one and belongs to the driver, and so on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: When you are taxing your car, you have to put in some insurance details so anyone who is taxing a car and is not insured is inputting fraudulent data and is committing an act of fraud when they tax their car.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: Surely it is not potentially. It is either a valid insurance policy or it is not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)
Gerry Horkan: There was a time when you had to have a valid NCT disc to get a tax disc. That requirement was scrapped a long time ago for understandable reasons. At the same time, it would make sense that all of these databases were talking to each other.