Frank Fahey (Galway West, Fianna Fail)

A central database could lend itself more easily to fraudulent practices. The main issues to be considered are the insurance companies' duty of confidentiality to their customers, the issue of non-correspondence accounts and policies, the Data Protection Act and, mainly, the constitutional right to privacy.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Question proposed: "That section 9 stand part of the Bill."