Nobody in the Bar Council attempted to explain its point that the Personal Injuries Assessment Board is weighted in favour of the defendant. This is not true. One person from the insurance industry has membership of the board. I can see how one could raise a principled argument against there being a representative from the industry and I could make a principled argument against it. In practical terms, however, such a representative should be there. It would not be likely that this person could convince 11 or 12 people, including zealots like me representing the trade union movement, zealots from the IBEC representing business, the Director of Consumer Affairs, people from the financial services sector and a variety of other people who have no connection with the insurance industry. If this one voice will drown out all those others, good luck to him or her. It would take a mighty advocate to do it. This is a case of 11 against one, assuming that the person has a biased view of the world as is suggested in this document, which I have not seen, from representatives of insurance companies. He or she would have to drown out all the other voices who will be there trying to move the process forward.