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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Flexible Work Practices (5 Apr 2022)

David Stanton: 975. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current policy with respect to remote working options for staff in her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18172/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: If mediation is not completed within the statutory provision of nine months, will it be suspended and will PIAB provide findings? If mediation goes on and on and does not come to an end, am I correct in saying that it stops at that stage and PIAB makes a determination? I understand that in mediation both parties can bring legal representation to the table. Is there an assessment of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: On the last point, does it mean that no payment will be made until it is determined what the injuries are under heads 15 and 16? There may be some injuries, a lack of income or whatever else. I asked about where insurance companies settle cases early out of court, which very often results in an increase in premiums to a business. Have such cases been examined? Can it be mandatory that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: The PIAB process does not have the same level of legal representation as in a court case. With respect to situations where PIAB makes an early determination, such as within three months, is it possible at that stage to go to mediation if there is no mediation prior to litigation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: I have a few follow-up questions. Is there a limit to the amount of money that PIAB can determine as a final outcome? Is that reflected in the mediation process as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: What are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: In the case of catastrophic injury as a result of a car accident, where we are talking about settlements in the range of €1 million or more, what is the situation? Does that have to go to court? Is there a cut-off point? How is that determined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: My question really is related to PIAB's role and the limits that might apply to it. If someone is involved in a car accident and has a catastrophic injury which might yield an amount in the millions, is PIAB ruled out in circumstances like that? Does it just go to court?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: That is fine. I take it that the issue of periodic payment orders, PPOs, will be treated in a similar fashion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: The first payment was approved by a court in February 2019. Periodic payment orders are obviously linked to insurance claims as well. I want to know whether the officials have looked at the possibility of PIAB being involved in them. Similar to what Mr. Newham just said, would they be too complex for PIAB? Would they have to be dealt with by the courts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: Earlier on, I asked about the issue of retaining cases. In the initial statement, Mr. Newham said that heads 15 and 16 will allow the board to assess injuries of a psychological nature and retain cases. Is there a time limit by which cases can be retained? Could this be indefinite? Could the officials tell us more about how that might work? Would somebody receive an interim payment and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: Mr. Maher referred to six months. That is 15 months overall by which the whole matter has to be finalised. It was stated earlier that cases might be retained where, based on medical evidence, the prognosis cannot be interpreted within the statutory timelines. We are adding six months on to the nine months that are already provided. I understand the issue where a payment is made and the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (7 Apr 2022)

David Stanton: 37. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of employment permit applications received by his Department per month form October 2021 to March 2022, inclusive; the number of applications processed by his Department per month in this period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18783/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (7 Apr 2022)

David Stanton: 52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that his Department has put in place to deal with the delays in the processing of employment permit applications and requests to expedite employment permit applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18784/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Israel's Conduct of its Occupation of the Palestinian Territory: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: I welcome Professor S. Michael Lynk, UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Palestinian territory, to discuss his latest and, I understand, final report as special rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council. I also welcome H. E. Dr. Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid, Palestine's ambassador to Ireland, who is in the Public Gallery. We will hear Professor Lynk's opening statement...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Israel's Conduct of its Occupation of the Palestinian Territory: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: I thank Professor Lynk. I read his report last night and it makes for absolutely grim reading. I thank him for his presentation. I apologise for our Chair who is indisposed today. I am standing in for him. He sends his apologies. I will open the meeting to colleagues who I am sure have questions to ask. I ask them to keep their questions succinct and short and not to make long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Israel's Conduct of its Occupation of the Palestinian Territory: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: I counted approximately six questions in the Deputy's contribution if Professor Lynk could go through them as succinctly as he can.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Israel's Conduct of its Occupation of the Palestinian Territory: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: Professor Lynk has covered the six questions. I thank him. I now call Senator O'Reilly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Israel's Conduct of its Occupation of the Palestinian Territory: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: I thank Senator Joe O'Reilly. I think there are five or six questions for Professor Lynk.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Report of UN Special Rapporteur on Israel's Conduct of its Occupation of the Palestinian Territory: Discussion (31 Mar 2022)

David Stanton: We are doing okay. The Professor might please try to go through them as succinctly as he can.