Seanad debates

Thursday, 20 November 2003

Personal Injuries Assessment Board Bill 2003: Second Stage.

 

I have set benchmarks for the PIAB, on which I believe every member of the board will support me. Those benchmarks include, first, the question of time. Will this begin to shorten the time period between someone having an accident, lodging a fair claim and receiving money? Before anybody comes back at me on that, I have taken the trouble to look at the dates of accidents and the initiation and conclusion of litigation in every case that has gone through the Irish courts over a number of years so I know what I am talking about. The amount of time cases take is disgraceful. The Bar Council informed us this morning that things are working efficiently and I will come back to that point shortly. I have the lists and the times and I will show them to anyone who wants to see them. The gap between putting in a claim and receiving money is unacceptable.

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