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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I ask Mr. O'Midheach to respond.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Mr. Connaughton.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Finally, on the wording of business interruption policies, did the organisations represented change the wording of these policies in 2020 or thereafter, when all of this kicked off? In relation to the timelines, will the organisations suspend the application of any timelines in their policies for policyholders making claims under the business interruption policies for affected businesses,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Was the wording that FBD changed defective in some way, loosely worded or open to interpretation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Does AIG wish to comment on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Does Deputy MacSharry have a question before we finish? We are obliged to wind up now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: We are due to wind up, Mr. Connaughton. You might send us a further clarification-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I thank all the members and thank the insurance companies for appearing before us today. I am sorry the meeting has gone over time but I am thankful for their contribution. I will ask the clerk to the committee to send some questions that I did not reach in my contribution to all the companies and they might write back in response to each and every one of them. As for other queries that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: We resume in public session. We are joined by Mr. Andrew Algeo, chief executive officer, Premier Lotteries Ireland; and Ms Carol Boate and Mr. Derek Donoghue of the Office of the Regulator of the National Lottery. Before we begin, I ask members and witnesses to be advised of the note on privilege, whereby full privilege is extended to members and those who are conducting the meeting from...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Algeo. I invite Deputy Durkan to put his questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Does Deputy Tóibín have further questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Issues: Engagement with Insurance Companies (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I ask the witnesses to comment on whether there is an arbitration clause in their organisations' Covid-19 business interruption policies for any disputes, for claims cases to be sent to secret arbitration that is not open to the public, the information arising from which is not available to the public, and the whole notion that this process will cost the individual €100,000.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I remind the Deputy of the limited time she has remaining.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Mr. Algeo said the money from unclaimed prizes goes back into promoting the lottery. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: I understand that. What has been unclaimed so far in 2021?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: In 2020, the figure was €17 million. What was it in 2019?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Could Mr. Algeo go back over those figures? The figure for 2020 was €17 million. What was it in 2019?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: What was it the previous year, in 2018?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Those sums of money are ring-fenced for the promotion of the lottery. From that, I can take it that these vast amounts of money were spent each year on advertising and general promotion of one kind or another.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Issues Related to the National Lottery: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)
John McGuinness: Is that not a fantastic amount of money to be spending on promotion? Mr. Algeo was asked earlier to break out the figure, as he put it, but the figure is already broken out because the money has to be ring-fenced for promotion. We can safely say that, for PR and promotion, all of this money was spent. Therefore, we have a figure that is broken out from the company’s accounts. Can...