Seanad debates
Thursday, 19 December 2002
Order of Business.
I am getting tired of all these tribunals of compensation. People are now appealing the awards they have "trousered", or "skirted", and are looking for more from the courts. I have sympathy for the tragic circumstances involved, but the public purse is finite. Money awarded comes from the taxpayer and is taken from other projects and this ought to be remembered. It is not an abstract thing where people can extract as much money as possible. The resources are finite and should be judiciously apportioned in the interests of all our citizens.
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