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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: On 1 April 2017 was it not the case that new rules stated that customers who renew over four times with an insurance company will have to be prompted again to shop around, even though there is a requirement for every renewal policy to be prompted, but those who renew on four occasions or more need to be given an additional prompt by the insurance company to shop around for better value?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: That has been introduced because of this information. Does Aviva do any work with Milliman, an actuarial and consultancy firm?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Are the witnesses familiar with its work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is a reputable organisation and it states that optimisation algorithms, which the witnesses agree that Aviva has, can push prices up for loyal customers who have been renewing their policies with the same insurer for a few years because the model perceives them to be less price sensitive. Is that not the model? Is that not why Aviva is talking to people with expertise in behavioural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Would Aviva also be open to following the practice in Britain which prompts those who renew a policy on four occasions or more to shop around?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: My insurance contracts Bill will come to the Dáil for Report and Final Stages before the end of the year. It is hoped to require all insurance companies to notify their premiums over the past three years, and the claims that have been made, to bring transparency for motor and other lines of insurance. Would Aviva welcome that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: What about the other companies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: We understand that a lead time will be required for information technology systems to facilitate some of this work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Only in motor insurance, not public liability.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Insurance Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The witnesses have to acknowledge that the frequency of claims has been reduced by 25% over the past four years. There are arguments the witnesses can make but they need to talk about it in facts instead of spin. I am sorry to interrupt.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (2 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 183. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment at Letterkenny University Hospital outpatient clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40092/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if a letter of complaint sent to Letterkenny University Hospital by a person (details supplied) was received; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40093/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister outline why his Department insisted that a second form of access to the national childcare scheme be dropped, leaving parents with only the public services card as a means of accessing this scheme?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: It is not very convenient for parents.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Services Card (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: The Minister has been a cheerleader for the public services card. He has encouraged people to avail of it as a means of access to other public services in the areas of transport, passports, and many others. We have heard of the willingness to spend public money on promoting that idea. The Minister is, however, in a sticky situation. The Data Protection Commissioner has expressed in three...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which his Department has issued guidance notes or made provision for the exclusion of economic operators in procurement procedures for public contracts in circumstances in which the economic operator has shown significant or persistent deficiencies or failures in the performance of a prior public contract; and if he will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Our public procurement system is in need of urgent reform. We need a system that is green, promotes social justice and facilitates local wealth building. We need a procurement model that avoids the spending scandals that we have seen under this Government, most notably in relation to the national children's hospital and the national broadband plan. What provisions has the Department of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: Earlier this year, the construction firm, Western Building Systems, was awarded a contract to deliver a 60 bed modular ward extension at University Hospital Limerick. This same construction firm was found to be responsible for structural defects in many of the 42 new schools that have been built in recent years. In August, the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, said that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Regulations (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: This should simply never have happened. We have a company here which was involved in serious deficiencies in building schools where our children are educated. It went on to bid for and was awarded a contract to build a modular extension to University Hospital Limerick. The rules are very clear. I have read them aloud. The European Union (Award of Public Contracts) Regulation, which was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Expenditure (1 Oct 2019)

Pearse Doherty: I am a bit taken aback by the Minister's response. As stated, I am not looking for details in respect of the specific measure or the final figure; I am looking for a ballpark idea of his thinking on the level of investment needed for a no-deal Brexit. This would normally be set out in the summer economic statement or the spring economic statement, and the Minister is telling me he has not...