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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: It took the Minister of State long enough to come up with these recommendations in the first place. Recommendation No. 1 is not implemented because, as the Minister of State said, the insurance industry claimed it would push up prices. Recommendation No. 2 has not been implemented.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Is it not the case that there is a consultation process under way?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Has it been implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Accordingly, it has not been implemented as of yet. Has recommendation No. 3 been implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: It has not been implemented either. Has recommendation No. 6 been implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Is there a protocol?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Where is it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Is the Minister of State telling me that the protocol is just about putting more information on websites?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Is the sum total of this protocol, on the issue of insurance for returning emigrants, just for the insurance industry to put more information on its websites?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Will the Minister of State tell us what is in it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State told me that. Will he now tell me what is in it? Is the sum total of this protocol, on the issue of insurance for returning emigrants, just for the insurance industry to put more information on its websites?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: I find it hard to figure out what is new from what the Minister of State just read out and what was there before.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Has recommendation No. 8, protocol for policyholders notified of claims made against them before settlement, been implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The Minister of State wrote to the insurance industry last year but it is playing hardball. Take taxi drivers-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: There is a clear pattern here. Let us take taxi drivers as an example as I and many other members have raised this issue previously. I got a call from a constituent, a taxi driver in Donegal who has had motor and home insurance policies with Liberty Insurance for more than ten years. He has two cars and has not made any claims. He told the company he wanted to put another taxi on the road,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Once in 18 months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: I am raising it on behalf of taxi drivers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: A constituent of mine is being charged €11,700 and the most recent and only time this committee met was a year and a half ago. The Minister of State with responsibility for the insurance industry can say he is doing a fine job but, by God, he is not. Let me come to the issue of fraud.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: The recommendation is there in black and white.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
Pearse Doherty: Does the Minister of State not think this is his responsibility? Why has the advisory committee not met for the past year and a half?