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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Fiscal Assessment Report: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Can I ask finally-----

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 71. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when fibre broadband will be available to a household (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28606/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a driver test will be expedited for an essential worker (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28607/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 120. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a bhéas cinneadh déanta ag a Roinn maidir le iarratas a chur coiste tuismitheoirí scoil i Dhún na nGall isteach (sonraí tugtha) ar maoiniú faoin gClár Tacaíochtaí Pobail agus Teanga; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [28605/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: 186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a lone parent application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28604/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I welcome the witnesses to the committee meeting. Deputy Mairéad Farrell touched on some of the points I had intended to raise in regard to the experience and the evidence of what we are seeing happen in this sector. The figures in terms of the increase from €2,500 to over €65,000 in the space of two years are shocking and they point to the need for urgent action. Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank Mr. Lyons and have a couple of final questions on that matter. I am looking for an understanding of what it will mean if this problem is not rectified. Will costs be passed on to the customer? What will it mean in terms of the prices of homes? Have any calculations been done in that regard? We are also talking about offices and hotels, etc., which all require this type of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: I thank our guests for attending the committee. The sound quality is not great, but we will proceed anyway. Can Mr. Bradley elaborate on the point made about the 600,000 motorists who have seen a premium reduction of €80 compared with where they were 12 months ago? Can he elaborate on that? Does it include the €30 rebate that was issued to AXA customers as a result of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Can Mr. Bradley talk to us about the points made? Take, for example, people who renewed their policy in January. Is Mr. Bradley saying these people have had an 80% reduction on average from the price 12 months ago?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: So it is not the 600,000 customers because many of them have not renewed. It is only those renewing at present and who will renew in future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: What Mr. Bradley is telling the committee is that those renewing over the past month or so, since the guidelines came into effect, are seeing an average of a 10% reduction in their premium, given that the average premium in the State is €676.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: What should those customers do who may not have seen a reduction in premium when they renewed in the past month with AXA, and who may have seen increases despite the fact they have the same policy, the same car, no claims, no additional penalty points or any penalty point? The CEO is telling us there is an average 12% reduction across the board.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: In advance of the insurance companies coming before the committee, we wanted to get a sense of what is happening in the sector and we asked people to give us unvarnished information. Some of them sent in their policy documents and we really appreciate it. So far, we have had 1,361 responses. Mr. Bradley will be glad to know we got the most responses from people with policies with his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Is Mr. Bradley giving a commitment that people who have a like for like policy should see a reduction in their premium if they renewed in the past three to four weeks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Not only have people given us their policy documents they have also given us their comments. One individual saw the premium increase from €850 to €880. When asked for views on this, the person said that it is extortion, that the prices are way too high for customers who prefer to stay with one company, that they get punished for doing so and that there is no loyalty. When...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: A total of 59% of the 132 AXA customers who have been in contact with me, who Mr. Bradley says are not being punished for their loyalty, have seen a premium increase at a time generally when premiums are decreasing and should be decreasing. As a result of the personal injury guidelines, premiums should further decrease, as the insurance industry told us, by up to 20%. The industry told us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Will Mr. Bradley sign up to the same level of scrutiny the company is subject to in Britain? Since the cost of awards for whiplash was cut, AXA, along with AIG and other companies, has to provide to the UK Financial Conduct Authority the level of premium that would have existed if the claims had not been cut and the overall level of awards. Will Mr. Bradley sign up to the same level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Bradley would be happy with the same level of oversight as exists in Britain. As I am sure Mr. Bradley is aware, in Britain the company has to show the UK Financial Conduct Authority what the level of premiums would be if the awards had not been cut, so it can be very clearly identified whether all of the reductions in awards have been passed on to the consumer. Is Mr. Bradley saying...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: Mr. Bradley said AXA does not price walk and this is the second time he has told the committee this. The Central Bank, in its initial report, called into question the views of some companies in the insurance industry, without naming them, and the suggestion they are not involved in price walking. Have the witnesses satisfied the Central Bank, in their communication with it, that their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Developments in the Insurance Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Pearse Doherty: May I take it the witness is rejecting the main assertion, which is the interaction, price signalling and collusion, both privately and publicly, between the named seven firms? Do the witnesses reject the CCPC's initial findings? They are aware that the next option for the CCPC is to begin civil proceedings, unless under section 14B of the 2002 Act assurances are provided by the companies...