Geraldine Feeney (Fianna Fail)

The VHI said that it has very few such former members and that there has been no noticeable decrease in customers in the over 70 age bracket leaving the VHI. In 2001 there were 88,989 people over 70 in the VHI and today there are more than 120,000. The VHI will take the former members back in the morning without any penalty. The only thing it will ask for is that they pay the premia that have built up in the years they were away——