Seanad debates

Tuesday, 25 November 2003

Personal Injuries Assessment Board Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages.

 

My advice to all solicitors when this Bill is enacted is to brief their people well on it and on the workings of the PIAB and to co-operate with the PIAB. There is little incentive to co-operate with the board when it is excluded from making a case on behalf of a solicitor's clients or submitting the facts and figures to the company. The amendment is very fair and Senator Coghlan argues well for it. I have no vested interest in the legal profession, either on my own account or that of family members, but we all have a right to make a living. If one excluded engineers and architects—

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