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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: 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.

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

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

Darren O'Rourke: I thank Deputy Doherty for bringing forward this timely and important motion. It is clear that Government can and must do more to protect energy customers. We have only to look at the recent reports which point to an increase of 135% in the number of people unable to heat their homes. According to the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, more than 40% of households are now...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: I welcome the opportunity to discuss this Bill. Sinn Féin will not be opposing it, although, as we have said at committee meetings and when dealing with similar legislation in this House, we are very frustrated with the process. It is no way to do legislation. It should be acknowledged and recognised that we are in this situation due to the spectacular mismanagement of our energy...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (7 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 124. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in County Meath that have applied for the business energy support scheme; the number that have been successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8319/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (7 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 182. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if it is the case that the windfall tax on electricity companies operating here will apply only from 1 December 2022 to 30 June 2023; if there is provision in the Council Regulation (EU) 2022/1854 to apply the tax retrospectively to account for the super-normal profits prior to that period; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (7 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 275. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to review the National Development Plan to increase the funding envelope to 2030, in light of increasing costs and new climate obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11463/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Meetings (7 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 276. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or his Department officials have met with representatives of medical scientists here in the wake of publication of an assessment (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11464/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Mar 2023)

Darren O'Rourke: 543. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive an appointment in Beaumont Hospital. [10924/23]