Results 14,061-14,080 of 15,268 for speaker:Kathleen Lynch
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: Yes.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: The Minister should introduce it.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: It has not.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: The point is that people are not taking that. They are not doing it.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: What of the woman who was awarded â¬14,000 and eventually got â¬40,000 in the courts?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: How many cases are involved?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: Of the 5,000, how many did the courts agree with?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: I know that.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: So it is coming from the PIAB.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: The Minister's solution is not the way to deal with it.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: In how many cases?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: How many?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: We waited for seven years to establish the board.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Deputy Hogan and I sat on the Opposition benches when the principal Act was taken through Committee Stage. Civil servants write speeches for Ministers, but the least Ministers can do is ensure accuracy. Insurance companies did not reduce their costs as a result of the PIAB's establishment. Those costs had already fallen as a result of the intensive scrutiny of...
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: No matter how wealthy or poor we are, all we can rely on is the protection of the law. If we forget this, our democracy is in serious trouble. The amending Bill to the legislation will try to remove that protection. It will be challenged because it is constitutionally unsound. The PIAB's chairperson was impressive when it was established, but had I been the claims manager of Iarnród...
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: If the Minister answers those questions honestly, his attitude should be different.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: Then why is this Bill being introduced?
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: Yes.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: That is exactly our concern.
- Personal Injuries Assessment Board (Amendment) Bill 2007 [Seanad]: Second Stage (5 Jul 2007)
Kathleen Lynch: If only the Minister had such power.