Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Rising Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (Resumed)

11:00 am

Photo of Pearse DohertyPearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

What about when the book of quantum states that for a certain category of whiplash, for example, the award is €15,000 and somebody appeals that to the Judiciary and gets €45,000? I think in one of the documents I got through a freedom of information request I saw correspondence between the insurance sector and the Department, which were concerned about some newly appointed members of the Judiciary in terms of some of the payouts they would grant. How does the board deal with that? Does it revert to the book of quantum or does it now have to have regard to the new price that has been set by the courts?

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