Seanad debates
Thursday, 20 November 2003
Personal Injuries Assessment Board Bill 2003: Second Stage.
To conclude, this legislation is mould breaking. It provides us with a new direction and it will prove to have been in everybody's best interest. Lawyers will deal in the future only with cases which should go to court. They will have the support of all of us in that. We will no longer have the problem of 90% of cases being settled on the steps of our court houses. The chancers who take fraudulent cases will be identified more easily. They will have to go to the courts. While there may be some who go to court having felt the PIAB has not treated them fairly, a balance among all interests has been struck in this legislation. It is in the best interests of the consumer, the Constitution and the community in general.
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