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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: Why is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: Mr. Jennings mentioned the leverage the Government might have and the pension reforms. Will Mr. Jennings elaborate on that point about leverage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: What is the alternative to those insurance companies for auto-enrolment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: My second question uses that dreadful word, "cartel". Do the insurance companies in Ireland operate as a cartel? Mr. Jennings will probably not be able to answer that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: Have they been investigated for running a cartel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: One last tiny question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: Mr. Hanley said 13% profit is typical in Ireland. Insurance companies are obviously multinationals. They are part of groups, etc. I just question that figure of 13%. That is based on an Irish-registered company trading just in Ireland, so are the witnesses confident enough that that figure of 13% for profit relates just to activity in the Republic of Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: It is really about action and about the Government doing things. We can all talk and bemoan the fact that insurance companies are making lots of money but it comes down to what actions we actually take. I note there are deadlines and timelines for many of those actions although not for all of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Insurance Matters: Engagement with the Alliance for Insurance Reform (17 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: Are the witnesses aware of any investigation?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: 1039. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the opening of a special school (details supplied). [47331/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Sep 2025)

Edward Timmins: 2669. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive neurological endovascular or stroke care therapy. [47476/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I thank the Chair, and I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I have four questions. The first relates to fraud generally. Mr. O'Connor can decide whether it is answerable. My question comes from my own work experience dealing with transfers of funds. Does the NTMA have a system of making telephone call confirmations in all cases of drawdown requests? I know it is often done by US...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: That is the first one. We will do them one by one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I have just one simple question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: When someone makes a capital call or a request for funds to be transferred from the NTMA to a third party, does someone pick up the phone and ask the question, "Was it you who made that request?" This is a simple control.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: Is it not done as a rule?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: I would suggest that it is a very simple and a very effective control to be done 100% of times, certainly over values of €5,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: That is not a clear answer but I understand what Mr. O'Connor is saying.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: A "Yes" or a "No". In 100% of cases where someone does a transfer request - let us say over €10,000 - does that trigger a phone call from the NTMA to that supplier, yes or no?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Edward Timmins: My next question pertains to interest charges and how we are trying to reduce the national debt. We are trying to reduce interest charges over the coming years. When the Minister for Finance was here a few weeks back I pointed out that in the multi-year expenditure plan 2030 prepared by the Government, the interest charge for 2030 was €5.3 billion compared to €3.1 billion in...