Results 41-60 of 5,325 for speaker:Joe O'Reilly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: -----even if I am offered fairly standard money. That begs the question - it is our issue here - whether something should be done to prevent that. If I have trouble with my employer or with a worker in the shop, they must go to the WRC and there is a process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: This needs to work similarly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: That is bizarre. That is in the alliance's presentation. Will they explain how the issue of litigation goes? We all have a duty in our roles to find out what is happening in the world around us. Anecdotally, I am picking up that small claims are being settled. Rather than going the whole way, they are being settled on or even before the steps of the court on economic grounds. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: It goes into the courts. If the person claiming rejects, it must go through the whole process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: The client, the individual.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: This is where the resolution board is not functioning properly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Nobody wants an individual damaged in the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Could a mechanism be put in place that would make transparent to consumers and to everyone the amount the brokers are getting from the companies and the amount they are getting from the clients? Could that be transparent and written up in policies? In other words, when I go in for my insurance, I should know how much the broker is getting off the company and how much it is getting from me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: They will not tell me what the company is giving them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Like holidays-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: -----and football matches.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I, the client, can leave the resolution board-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Through the other courses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome our guests. Despite the ginormous figures we deal with these days, the loss of €5 million of taxpayers’ money is very serious, as the witnesses accept, when there are so many socially reforming things it could achieve that would matter to people. The NTMA said in its opening statement that this was not an IT issue, so it was obviously a governance issue. Without...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: We are not identifying names.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: There should be some way that an individual would have to go to a second person.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: That is reassuring. Mr. O'Connor is assuring the taxpayers, through this meeting, that there will be new governance structures, with new checks and balances.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Even in a very small business, a system of checks and balances is needed. There cannot be the one person. That would make it subject to human error.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Joe O'Reilly: Moving on to the good news, that being, the 70% debt-to-GNI* ratio. In simple terms for those watching and listening, will Mr. O’Connor quantify what this means for taxpayers in terms of prospective reduced interest and potential investment?