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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Those vehicles are positioned on motorways and roads and will automatically scan number plates. There will be checks for insurance and tax. Is the national car test, NCT, also covered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: If somebody has signed up to a 12-month insurance system and but has only paid for two months, the ANPR system will know that that car is uninsured.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: An Garda Síochána is relying on the insurance companies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: Regarding investigating fraud, if someone becomes aware of fraud, what mechanism exists for that person to report that information? I am referring to the case of someone having an insurance claim for a trip or a slip in a nightclub while at the same time it is the talk of the town that the same person is going on holidays and bungee jumping. Insurance companies use private investigators in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: The person making that complaint will then be expected to turn up in court and make a statement. That is a reasonably serious deterrent for many people who do not want to be caught giving information regarding their neighbours and other people of whom they are aware. There is no mechanism to disclose concerns about somebody anonymously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I appreciate that vexatious complaints may have no grounds. If someone is aware of information, however, he or she will often not want other people to be aware that a complaint has been made. The insurance companies have told us about examples, and I am sure An Garda Síochána also has examples, of one family being incredibly accident prone, to put it mildly. That could also apply...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I will just tease this out a little more. If an insurance company is aware of these things and does not bring that information to An Garda Síochána, is that company guilty of an offence? I am referring to the company not bringing the information to An Garda Síochána and allowing it to make a judgment concerning how far to go with a complaint. If an insurance company has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: My point is that they should.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I will conclude on this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: On insurance fraud which accounts for 3% of the total, is it mostly concerned with motor insurance or does public liability insurance also form a part of it? We hear of cases involving diligent business owners who are facing claims where someone claims to have slipped. Video footage then appears which shows one friend hitting another in a fight and that was how a tooth was knocked out, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: To conclude on the point, I refer to businesses such as Supermac's, nightclubs, pubs and restaurants which use closed-circuit television, CCTV, footage to prove to someone that he or she has no case and he or she has gone away. Mr. Twomey recommends that these companies should bring that information to An Garda Síochána and state they want the person involved to be prosecuted or at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Fraud: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I thank Mr. Twomey.

Seanad: Citizens' Assemblies Bill 2019: Committee and Remaining Stages (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: The Senator can table an amendment to the motion when it is brought forward.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I thank all the witnesses for being here. Many of the points have been covered fairly comprehensively.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: I would not go that far.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: To make the point on the cost of insurance, various witnesses who own play centres, pubs, restaurants and so on have come before this committee and this issue is changing the way people are living, children are playing, playgrounds are being designed and night life works. The impact the cost of insurance cover is having is phenomenal. I am aware the witnesses know that but it is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: No. The Chairman is right. The point I am trying to tease out is if 20%, which is 10,000 or 12,000, of the famous figure of 65,000, of claims were fraudulent, why so few were sent to the Garda. Ms Muldoon has rejected the claim. She said FBD is not paying out. It has reason to do that. It must have some evidence because people who make a claim will not just walk away when an insurance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: What is in this famous insurance database?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: If, say, my name goes into the database, it will flag that I have had a claim.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Gerry Horkan: That is all. FBD does not know the size of the claim. Would it indicate that I have had seven or 12 claims?