Seanad debates

Monday, 24 November 2003

Personal Injuries Assessment Board Bill 2003: Committee Stage.

 

The intention is that awards will be broadly in line with those claimants would receive in court. Our aim is not to try to stop people receiving their entitlements but to give them their entitlement in a much cheaper and efficient fashion, while also removing, in as far as it is possible, lawyers from the process. The statistics make for dismal reading with 70% of cases here involving barristers as opposed to 4% in the United Kingdom. This is an indisputable fact and one of the reasons we have had to go down this route to find an alternative, cheaper way to do business.

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