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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)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Chair and thank the witnesses for their presentation. Mr. Fitzgerald outlined well the provisions of the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021. It is within the gift of the Government to move forward with the Bill by scheduling it. I would encourage the Government to do just that. It needs to be a recommendation from the committee that this is one element and it is well overdue at...

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

Darren O'Rourke: Will the gardaí have real-time access to that at the side of the road?

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

Darren O'Rourke: I am trying to think this through. In terms of what is happening at present - we might talk some more about Mr. Fitzgerald's analysis here - there are significant numbers of uninsured drivers but a level of detection that is not consistent with that. What is happening at the side of the road at present? Do people have fake papers or what is on their insurance disk?

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

Darren O'Rourke: Do we know if there is information in relation to that? If I am stopped at a checkpoint, they will check my licence and look for my NCT, my tax and my insurance disk. Do we have information about how many checkpoints are happening and how many people are being caught at them?

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

Darren O'Rourke: It is probably safe to say that if it is the case that people are driving uninsured, that is one thing, but if they are driving uninsured with fraudulent papers or insurance disks that is a separate issue as well in terms of fraud.

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

Darren O'Rourke: I wish to drill down into the research that Mr. Fitzgerald has done in relation to this. Is there any reasonable reason that might be missing? Might it be the case that the figures are overestimated based on cars being laid up off the road? I ask Mr. Fitzgerald to talk to me about the analysis on it.

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

Darren O'Rourke: We are an outlier based on-----

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

Darren O'Rourke: A massive outlier, yes.

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

Darren O'Rourke: Do we know what the driver of that is and why that might be the case? For example, are high insurance costs driving this? Is it a level of enforcement? Is it a regime? Is the regime that we are calling for in the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 in place in all these other European countries? What is the suite of measures that might contribute to this?

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

Darren O'Rourke: Is it a provision of the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021?

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

Darren O'Rourke: I refer to insurance costs here. I know lots of people who drive in the North, for example, and one of the things they immediately point to is the cost of putting a vehicle on the road and insurance taxes.

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

Darren O'Rourke: Does Mr. Fitzgerald know how great insurances costs are here in comparison with those in other countries?

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

Darren O'Rourke: That is fine but it would be worth thinking about. Even in our own hearings, we should investigate what is leaving us in a position where huge numbers appear to be driving uninsured. As for the policy response, Mr. Fitzgerald pointed clearly towards the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, which we need to see passed, and in that regard towards a potential option of looking at not just...

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

Darren O'Rourke: I presume the range of accidents for which MIBI compensates people includes virtually everything.

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

Darren O'Rourke: There are fatalities as well, I presume.

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

Darren O'Rourke: Did Mr. Fitzgerald give us a figure on the numbers of compensation payments made year on year?

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

Darren O'Rourke: What was the number of claims?

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

Darren O'Rourke: Are there groups of vehicles, whether they be leased vehicles or others? I am thinking of lots of leasing companies that might have had vehicles on which the tax is running out in eight months' time but the insurance is running out in a month's time and they do not renew the insurance. Is that a potential anomaly?

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: The Government has to want to do it in the first place.