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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Have any specific parties said they are not in favour of this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: What is the Minister of State's opinion? Does he think it should be set up or would he be concerned that by setting it up, it would be taking resources away from other Garda priorities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Who asks the Garda Commissioner to do this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State does not feel in his role of trying to drive down insurance-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: In the absence of a Garda Commissioner being appointed would it not be perfectly reasonable for the Minister for Justice and Equality to ask the acting Garda Commissioner?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: We will have to wait until a new Garda Commissioner is in place. It is not the Minister of State's brief but does he have any idea when that might be?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Another point that was raised last week was public liability insurance, and I believe this was raised when the Minister of State was still a member of this committee when the Licensed Vintners Association, LVA, and the Vintners Federation of Ireland, VFI, appeared before it. Two of the members of the Alliance for Insurance Reform are from the LVA and VFI, in addition to the many other bodies...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: At the same time the Data Protection Commissioner says CCTV footage can only be retained for a month. Is there any way we can resolve that quickly? I have no problem with people who have genuine claims. No one has a problem with genuine claims being pursued. However, it is two years later. In the hospitality industry, including restaurants and licensed premises, and even in supermarkets...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: When did that happen?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: That is 14 years ago.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: What would the Minister of State consider to be an appropriate period?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State thinks it is perfectly okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State is saying there is a two-year window for people to make claims but that within a month, under data protection rules, they would have to at least alert the relevant premises that something has happened and that they might be making a claim within the two years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: However, we are still relying on the courts to interpret that. The Minister of State is not saying that a claim cannot be pursued if there is no preliminary notification of an incident within a month.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: There was much talk about soft tissue injury, whiplash and our payments being different from those in other countries. Do we have the same medical scan technology? Do we look at soft tissue injuries in this country in the same way as they are viewed in other countries? If not, why not? If so, why are our payouts so much higher? There appears to be an acceptance in the Minister of State's...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: There is nothing we can do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Is there nothing the Government or the legislative process can do to put a better benchmark in place?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: The Minister of State can correct me if I am wrong but the book of quantum is purely a statistical history of what has happened.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: If judges bring down the claims over time, the book of quantum averages will fall over time. Equally it will reflect if the Judiciary pays out more. It is not the book of quantum but the claims judges pay out. There seems to be a great difference between what one judge will pay and what another judge will pay. We certainly heard that in our earlier hearings with regard to motor insurance...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: We accept that.