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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I hope the Minister of State is not amazed in 12 months. I want to move on to recommendation No. 3. This extends the current renewal notification period from 15 to 20 working days but it requires a consultation paper that will not be ready until the fourth quarter of this year and any resulting legislation could take another six months. Is this just an example of putting things on the long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Why do insurance companies not just increase that time period as a gesture of goodwill? They could increase it to 20 days without having to go all through all the hoops.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: That could be done at a later date. Could the insurance companies not just come back with some of these actions and fix them as a gesture of goodwill? The renewal time seems to me to be a very simple thing that could be fixed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I ask that maybe the Minister of State could go to the insurance industry and ask them to change that without trying to bring them all along. In this situation the Minister of State is being dictated to by the slowest vehicle within the system.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes, I know, but the legislation could follow.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I thank the Minister of State. I want to ask specifically about declined cases and the system. It seems that there is still a lot of delay in this regard. For example, one of my colleagues was contacted by a taxi driver who had sought insurance. The taxi driver had entered into the declined cases system but several months later was still waiting for a reply. How do consumers know what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: What can somebody do who is in that system at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: This is a final point. I am really concerned that privatisation of the policing and the specialist Garda units seems to be on the Minister of State's agenda. It should be rejected. It reminds me of the whole situation with Shell and the Garda and the force that was used there. I am appalled at the thought of privatising policing or allowing the industry to rent a cop, as it was allowed to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Is the Minister of State proposing that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I have grave concerns about that. Sinn Féin has grave concerns about it also.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Costs: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: What does it lead to? Can we get a philanthropist to fund a police service to investigate corrupt politicians? It opens a can of worms that is way beyond this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Procurement Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: I am glad we are discussing this item on procurement. It permeates a wide range of Government and local authority activities. It has all gone a bit crazy. I understand the challenges in implementing the EU directives but something has gone seriously wrong in their implementation. I will give the Minister of State some examples. The Cathaoirleach talked about the broader contracts,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Procurement Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Procurement Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is certainly a rule within the Leader purchasing rules.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Procurement Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: It is 100% right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Procurement Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Yes, perhaps it is throughout the year. After Brexit, will British companies be included in the procurement process?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Procurement Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (1 Jun 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Workers' rights and conditions in some of the companies that win tenders based on price need to be examined.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: Today, the chief executive of AIB has acknowledged the role played by taxpayers in the bailout of his bank. The sheer scale of the taxpayer bailout of €20 billion should warrant a more transparent approach to any potential sale of this State-owned bank. Any plan to sell part of this public asset should be clear in its reasoning. The plan to sell up to 25% of the shares has been...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: We did not vote for the bank guarantee. Let us make this clear.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Rose Conway Walsh: We did not. I want to clear this up. On 17 October -----