Mr. Pat Lordan:

I will not comment because I do not know enough about those cases. We do not see the details of cases that are settled or those that go to court. The one thing about CCTV footage is that if a person trips or falls and he or she states he or she has hurt his or her leg, unless he or she does something to make a claim, the incident will not reach the stage of prosecution.

The person has to progress to putting in a claim or doing something to make the effort. Often, if it is called out at a very early stage, one is left with a scenario where a person states that he tripped on the footpath but actually he may have had a few drinks, tripped on the footpath and then walked away. The person will not have made an affidavit, a statement or a complaint at that stage. Some of those are quite difficult. The Senator is better off addressing that to the public sector in order to see what it has to say.