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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The point I constantly make is to consider all of Ireland and its overall offering. IFS2020 has a target of increasing our offering by 30%, or approximately 10,000 jobs, over a five-year period. According to last year's figures, the current figure is just under 40,000. As we increase the number further, I am committed to maintaining at least one third of the overall number outside of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (9 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: To be fair, enough is never being done in that we must continually reform the process as we introduce it. The Office of Government Procurement, OGP, is a new entity and has done a tremendous amount of work in a short period, but we must continually review what we are doing and get feedback. I will have to discuss Cork again. I visited it with the OGP as part of the work that we were...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: It is important to understand that the reason we know about these instances of non-competitive processes taking place is because they are completed by the Accounting Officers themselves under this Circular 40/02. That is how we come to see exactly what has happened in this space. We need to recognise that while we should always hope to see competitive processes, EU directives allow for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: This is constantly being reviewed by the Office of Government Procurement, which is a new office. Its role in this area is to bring about the standards for compliance and the standards to be set for a competitive or non-competitive tender, and to liaise with the contracting authorities which might be a State agency or might be a local authority about best practice. I spoke earlier about the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (2 Mar 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Public procurement is governed by EU and national rules.  The aim of these rules is to promote an open, competitive and non-discriminatory public procurement regime which delivers best value for money.  It is a basic principle of public procurement that competitive tendering should be used other than in justifiably exceptional circumstances. Under Department of Finance...

Public Services and Procurement (Social Value) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: The Government does not oppose the Bill. In fact, we have never opposed it. I am not sure to what rumour Deputy Marc MacSharry is referring. We have always sought to work constructively on this matter because we value social clauses and access for small and medium-sized businesses to public procurement. I commend Deputy Frank O'Rourke for bringing forward the Bill. I also commend the...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I would have appreciated more time to address properly the concerns raised. I did not get to refer to a number of Deputies' contributions. They stayed here late on a Thursday to make them. I thought it would have been better to debate the two reports separately. It is typical when there are two reports on one issue to try to separate them. Of course, we can come back to debate this, or...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Exactly, the Deputy believes it will not impact because I am not directly intervening on the issue of premiums. I do not have legal power to make such an intervention. I could not do so under EU law. The Deputy referred to my comment that there is no silver bullet. We must properly manage expectations. I cannot give people an expectation that I can change their insurance premium price if...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: It is not possible to introduce caps either. I must be responsible and I cannot promise something I cannot deliver. I respect the fact that Deputy Boyd Barrett spends a great deal of time listening to the concerns of taxi drivers. It cannot be easy for them and I am aware of the frustrations and difficulties faced by individual taxi drivers. The industry faces particular issues because...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I will address Manitoba when I respond to Deputy Mick Barry's contribution because he referred to it specifically. We must also consider moral hazard when it comes to driver behaviour. If everyone were to get free insurance, what would be its effect on the way in which people drive on the roads? This is not a casual or throwaway line about moral hazard. We would get some interesting...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Deputy Breathnach raised the issue of competition. The lack of transparency in the insurance market is hurting competition. The joint committee focused on this issue. If more companies compete in the market in a safe manner under current Central Bank prudential regulation and the new Solvency II limits and everything else we are trying to achieve in the report, we will attract new entrants...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I will revert to other Deputies individually.

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank everyone for their contributions. I took notes and would like to touch on everyone's contribution, if I may, in the time that I have available to me. The Chairman of the Oireachtas committee commented on the deadlines and how we drive the implementation of this report. As I said in the committee today, we have to be realistic about the timelines in terms of certain actions that...

Motor Insurance Costs: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I welcome the opportunity to address Dáil Éireann this evening on the report on the cost of motor insurance produced by the working group I chair and the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. A significant amount of work has been done by both groups and we have had a number of engagements, including one this morning. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: I thank the joint committee for this invitation to discuss the recommendations of the cost of insurance working group on motor insurance. The background to the report is the fact that pricing in the non-life insurance sector, and particularly in the motor insurance area, has been subject to a lot of volatility in recent years from a point where some premiums appeared to be priced at an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: An important piece of the work done by the Oireachtas committee and the working group was to focus on the consumer from the get go, and ensure everything we endeavour to do is to protect their interests in being able to get insurance at an affordable rate. With regard to the attitude of the insurance industry and the companies, I have had nothing but positive assistance from individual...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: In the report we have committed to quarterly reports. I will endeavour with the working group to ensure we will give an interim quarterly report to show that work has begun. It runs to approximately 30 pages.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: We have already started the work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Report on Cost of Motor Insurance: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (16 Feb 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: Yes. I will endeavour to give quarterly reports to the committee starting in the second quarter, but because I was coming here today I asked the working group to give me a specific line by line report of what it has done, including what meetings have been held, what terms have been set and everything else. I have it and it is approximately 30 pages.