Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The companies that make up Insurance Ireland are the ones that are defending these cases in the main. Legislation was passed here in 2007. It was suggested by PIAB at the time that it would result in fewer people going to the courts. The trend has been the opposite because it allowed the courts to ensure that no legal costs would be paid if the award was not paid. What are Insurance Ireland's affiliated insurance companies doing? Do they press that? Do they bring it to the judges' attention in these cases? Is it the case that all of these claims get a higher payment than PIAB had offered? I would find that surprising given that PIAB's payments and the court payments are quite in line when one excludes payments of more than €100,000.