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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: No.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: Okay. Deputy Doherty might wish to ask some questions in the meantime.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: That brings us to the end of our consideration of this matter for this part of the meeting. I thank Mr. Boland for attending and I thank members and Deputy Doherty for their input.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: We are now joined from Insurance Ireland by Ms Moyagh Murdock, CEO; Mr. Florian Wimber, director of advocacy, communications and public affairs; Ms Jacqueline Thornton, director of regulation and policy development and company secretary; and Mr. Michael Horan, non-life-insurance manager. We will have an opening statement, followed by questions. I invite Ms Murdock to make her opening...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: In spite of your best efforts, Deputy, I do not think there is going to be a meeting of minds here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: For fear that the witnesses might think that Deputy Doherty is the only one with such views on the insurance industry in Ireland, I want to say that I have not experienced decreases for insurance cover, either for businesses that I know that have complained to me, or for individual motorists, although some have. In the main, regardless of what statistics the witnesses quote, I hear more...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: I would never have guessed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: Have you-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: I do not want to get into that now. I want to focus on the reasons we do not have companies wanting to come to Ireland. I want to know why, despite Insurance Ireland's best efforts, they do not respond or come here. Ms Murdock is saying that the cost of regulation is one of the obstacles. Has Insurance Ireland discussed that with the Central Bank?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: Will Ms Murdoch provide the committee with a written explanation of the cost of regulation and what it means? This is so that we can put words around what is generally bandied about or said about the cost of regulation. All of Insurance Ireland's best efforts, according to Ms Murdock, have failed to attract companies to come in. Apart from the cost of regulation, will she set out for us in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: I am talking about the basic act of attracting someone in to provide motor cover, public liability or anything else.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: I do not want it clouded with global issues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: I am interested in the customers in Ireland who are telling me that they pay too much.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: The Central Bank is at fault there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: Has Insurance Ireland called the Central Bank out on that? We have met the Central Bank and shared these views with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: Whom did Insurance Ireland meet there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: Will Ms Thornton give us a general note on it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: I ask her to include whom Insurance Ireland met in the Central Bank. I ask the witnesses to move onto the next obstacle these companies see when coming to Ireland.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Judicial Council (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (4 May 2022)
John McGuinness: Is the size of the market an issue?