Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

What is happening at the moment is that a person who suffers from whiplash or other injury does a deal before the case goes to court or through any other process. A lot of that is going on. I have no problem with what Ms Murphy is saying but we must nail down every angle to which we are exposed. It may be the case that politicians must legislate on a book of quantum in terms of setting out criteria for what is paid out to people by the courts. We must do something because everybody is afraid of having an accident or that something will go wrong. The reality is that if it is a small tip, one would pay the money out of one’s own pocket. The result is that we will lose jobs.