Written answers

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Department of Social and Family Affairs

Proposed Legislation

9:00 pm

Photo of Joanna TuffyJoanna Tuffy (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Question 113: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs her plans to use the impending Social Welfare Bill to ensure the cost of illness benefit and other disability payments can be recouped from insurance companies in respect of personal injury or other such claims when full liability is admitted by the company or its client. [8923/10]

Photo of Mary HanafinMary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Social welfare legislation does not currently provide for the reimbursement to the Department by insurance companies of social welfare payments deducted from awards of special damages in respect of loss of earnings.

Officials in my Department have been examining the range of issues involved in relation to this matter. In view of the fact that any changes in this area would require extensive consultations with interested parties, including the legal profession and insurance companies, in order to comply with formal Regulatory Impact Assessment requirements, the question of introducing any legislative provisions in relation to this matter in the forthcoming social welfare bill would be premature at this stage.

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