Seanad debates

Monday, 24 November 2003

Personal Injuries Assessment Board Bill 2003: Committee Stage.

 

There is a growing belief that if a person is injured, he or she is entitled to compensation. However, that is not the case. A person must establish that someone is at fault. If people are under the impression, as many are, that they can recover in all circumstances, they may not take certain basic steps, which they should take, such as gathering evidence or getting witness statements at the start of the assessment board process. They should be told by someone that the matter may end up in court and that they should get an engineer, for example, to look at the equipment in work which injured them before it suddenly disappears. That would be basic advice to give to someone who was injured as part of an accident at work. People should be told to take a photograph of the machine and to get an engineer to look at it. A doctor will not tell a person such things.

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