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- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is something we will revisit. My view is that transparency is of the utmost importance. I understand the argument on commercial sensitivity but we have not yet seen how the reports will be structured. I would like to know if there is a way to present such a report to the Oireachtas under section 16 that does not breach commercial sensitivity or other requirements concerning personal...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Excuse my ignorance on this point, but does this body fall under the remit of the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Therefore, is it correct that the Comptroller and Auditor General will be auditing it annually?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: A possible audit. Will it be possible to examine the issues concerning the claims? This section is really important and I support it because it requires not just a periodic examination but also an annual review by the State Claims Agency. There may not be many claims and one would hope that the annual review of the State Claims Agency will state everything is above board, great and all the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Did the Minister of State refer to the deposit return scheme?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I understand. I was not aware of that and I thank the Minister of State for bringing it to my attention. We are talking here about returning a can of Coke and hundreds of millions-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: This is a cost being placed on the Irish Exchequer and on taxpayers across the State. It accumulates to hundreds of millions of euro. I do not understand why a report that does not contain commercially sensitive or personal data cannot be published. That is my basic question. We talk about full disclosure and all the rest. Why not publish the report?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: We may have to consider this issue on Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: It is not.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State. Amendment No. 2 is technical. A section is to be deleted and from what I understand, amendment No. 3 replaces or does the job of the deleted section. We are deleting a section relating to the treatment of the compensation body as a creditor during the winding up of a company and have replaced that section through amendment No. 3. Will the Minister of State...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I thank the Minister of State.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: This section follows on with regard to the State Claims Agency. Will the Minister of State clarify the time limits that could be placed on the State Claims Agency when auditing claims that have not yet been completed and how these will interact with the timeframes required to assess and provide compensation? Will he also clarify the factors that will be taken into account to determine the...
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Can I ask-----
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Sorry; I should not have interrupted. Is the Leas-Chathaoirleach finished?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State intend to table amendments on Report Stage?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: Will it be on Wednesday?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: I am snowed under by my notes. I have no problem with the amendments but would like to question the Minister of State on them when I make sense of the notes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Motor Insurance Insolvency Compensation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: That may cause a problem for the schedule because we will have to table amendments. I was hoping for an undertaking. I hear what the Minister of State is saying about commercial sensitivity. In scenarios such as this, a Minister of State would sometimes say that a report can be published without compromising commercial sensitivity. If the State Claims Agency presents a report to the...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach is not entitled to an affordable house. It is €400,000 for an affordable home.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)
Pearse Doherty: €400,000,