Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 September 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission

2:00 am

Ms Mellissa English:

In the appropriation accounts for 2024, under note 6, miscellaneous, the Deputy will see there were three personal injury claims in that year costing a total of €103,000. One was in respect of an employee who had a trip and fall over loose wires. There was a payment out in respect of that claim for €100,000. That was obviously a severe injury. There was a second claim again for an employee of the Oireachtas who became trapped in a lift. The payment in 2024 for that was €1,472. It related to a medical assessment. There was a third claim, an employee who was injured when a door panel fell on them. The fee in respect of that for 2024 was just over €1,000 and that was a fee paid to PIAB to assess the claim.

In the other columns, the Deputy will see there are two claims by employees who are classified as non-PI. The total for them is €228,000. This related to two particular claims by employees. One is----

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