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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State was a member of the committee two years ago when we examined the issue of motor insurance. We seemed to have information that 70% of claims did not even get to PIAB, 20% did and 10% were settled in the courts. We somehow knew those figures. I do not know how, but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State hopes that the database Bill will be through the Houses by the end of the year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: When would it be commenced and when would the database go live?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Into the Central Bank, which will start working on it. Will the Central Bank produce reports for the public, Members or anyone else? Will we ever see anything?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: When the Minister of State says "we",-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: It will not be published.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: That is my point. The public will be able to see aggregated data on the national insurance database. When does the Minister of State anticipate the first report will be published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I am conscious that we have discussed motor insurance a great deal. It is an important issue, but so are public liability and other types of insurance. I might have been in the Chair when the Minister of State previously said that, if people wanted high payouts, there would have to be high premiums. It was not a case of "Get over it", only "That is the way it is". There is a large window...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Does it mean that people can keep two years of footage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Does it mean people must make a make a claim within a year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Are people in the position that if something happens on 1 January 2019, on 30 December 2020 they can say something happened but do not have to say it before that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Is the Minister of State now saying that if somebody wants to make a claim against a premises, restaurant, public house, cinema or whatever, they must do so within a month of the incident?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: What happens if people do not do so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: What the Minister of State has just said is at variance with what he said at a committee six months or a year ago when he said that he thought it was fine that people might want or need two years to not come in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I accept that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State mentioned in his opening statement that "Members should be aware that I intend to propose two amendments to the Bill". All of that will be incorporated in the Bill. When does he hope the legislation will pass through both Houses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State might ask the Leader in the Seanad to schedule the legislation ahead of the Judicial Appointments Bill. We would be all happy to take this legislation in advance of the Judicial Appointments Bill if we are still talking about the latter by the time we get to that time, and there is every possibility that we will be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Great. All the better. Earlier this morning the Minister of State made the point, as I think he did on the last day, that exaggeration is much greater than fraud. I reiterate that exaggeration is fraud. I accept that exaggeration is a form of fraud and that there is blatant fraud where nothing happens or an accident has been staged. However, exaggerating a claim is still fraud....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Gerry Horkan: That is the Minister of State's interpretation. I still think that if one deliberately claims something that is not true then it is fraud.