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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: Would that require legislation?
- 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: How would it work?
- 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: I presume guidelines are guidelines and are unlikely to be binding. When are they likely to be published?
- 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 gives us some hope that people are, or will become, aware that making such claims will result in an automatic examination of the issue by the relevant members of the Garda and so on.
- 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: I have a final point on that issue. Before an insurance company settles, should there be an onus on it to go back to the insured person and let him or her know? We have sometimes heard of a claim against a business - a sprained ankle for example - being settled for €15,000 or €20,000 to get rid of it. The publican, restaurateur, supermarket owner, takeaway owner or whoever...
- 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: It might change the behaviour of the company slightly in respect of just paying out and being done with it?
- 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 are no plans to do that anyway?
- 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: I thank the Minister of State for all the work he is doing. I look forward to my motor insurance coming down along with everybody else.
- 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: I have been shopping around and I did not get a better deal. Perhaps I was on a very good deal in the first place. I do not know.
- 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: I am definitely a very low risk. I hope everybody is watching. I thank the Minister of State and his officials for attending. The joint committee is now adjourned until Tuesday, 12 June. I remind members who are Deputies that the select committee is meeting this Thursday, 31 May, at 10. a.m. to deal with Committee Stage of the Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I thank all the witnesses for attending. The discussion is quite enlightening. We all know insurance has long been a problem. I recall during an election campaign in 1997 motor insurance for young people was a major issue. Mr. Boland referred to the book of quantum being revised. Is it fair to say that the book of quantum is just the historical, statistical analysis of what has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: We might ask him that question directly on Tuesday when he is in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: How would these claims arise in the case of Mr. Sinclair's industry? Are they being made by people who were participating in races or by people who were standing at the side of the course when they fell into a ditch or something?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: How much is that claim?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Okay. Do any of the other witnesses want to share their perception of the extent to which claims are fraudulently being made in respect of trips and slips? People can trip when a piece of carpet is in the wrong location or a step has been damaged. Could we get an indication of the percentage of the claims being dealt with in GAA venues or in marts that fall into this category?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Does the GAA analyse each claim that is made to determine whether it was completely its fault?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: I assume Mr. Ryan is talking about the use of GAA facilities for activities like zumba, slimming classes, 21st birthday parties and residents' meetings. Is it the case that the GAA is sometimes not indemnified in such circumstances?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Mr. Ryan said earlier that people using GAA halls would often need to have their own indemnity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: If someone at a 21st birthday party slips on the stairs-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Costs for Community Groups: Discussion (24 May 2018)
Gerry Horkan: Is the GAA getting more of those cases?