Mary Hanafins mother claims 62k

doesnt suprise me one bit. the hanafins are up to their knees in all sorts in dail eireann

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

Both. Isn't the woman entitled to privacy. Or do things like that go out the window when the person is the mother of a FF TD?

So she falls over in the national parliament and sues the state,costing the tax payer over 60k+ medical and legal expences, and you want it to be kept private!

Are you a fianna fail t.d.? Seriously?

sceptre wrote: »

What mother Hanafin does after a fall in the Dáil isn't all that relevant to political discussion unless daughter (Mary) Hanafin pushed her down the Leinster House stairs, which I think we can all assume wasn't the case

I really must laugh at this.
I began a thread saying that Ivor Callelly's wife and family(whether his is guilty or not of fraud etc.) are brought up and linked to him as part of a "business empire" and Eamon Gilmore's wife is considered not part of EG's business.
I specifically state thisis double standards
The thread is locked and I charged with soap boxing

Now people are bringing up Hannafin's ( whether you like her or not or she is guilty of anything ) mother and trying to like this to Hannafin making a statement about people claiming for injuries sustained in schools!

How can Hannafin's family and Ivor's family be considered fair game but Gilmore's wife be considered off limits?

There's a line between important / relevant and less important / less relevant. A compensation claim for a fall is less important than the other wackery, probable disdain for reasonable costs and crookery I've listed above.

AS I have frequently stated ther is a difference between "in the public interest" i.e. out of the public purse and "those things in which the public are interested" i.e. the private lives
of people which cost the state nothing.

RGS wrote: »

All citizens are entitled to sue for compensation if they feel their injuries were caused by the negligence of another.
In this case the matter was handled by The State Claims Agency who are an extremely professional organisation. They will defend the defendable claims but settle the undefendable claims.

Mrs. Hanafin did not receive €62K in compensation. She obtained €30K with the balance paid for legal costs.

Now maybe we should look into why it costs 32k for medical treatment for a fall and for loss of earnings during the period of treatment?

I had chemotherapy which week on week if you add it up cost about 10k a week.
I took up about three hours a day of nurses time monitoring me and plugging mew into a machine that poisoned me. I could wash myself feed myself and go to the toilet myself. a consultant saw me for a few minutes ever few days.
the chemo drugs ( I was on three different ones 12 hours a day ) cost in the thousands each.
I would think the costs were highly weighted in drugs and professional fees.

I also remember my first and last car crash into anoither car about ten years ago. My fault. they ahd erected one of these new pained roundabouts where a minor road joins a major one. i saw someone coming but forgot about the painteds circle and drove into the junction thoinking the other person was slowing. AS they drove in I had to slam on and dented their wheel arch and front wing. They were in a hurry to the airport and drove off after getting my name. I could have insisted they stay. They later sued for 30k ( this was ten years ago). No physical damage to any of the three in the car and certainly not shocked enough not to drive their car off to the airport ( it was well capable of driving and was not that badly damaged - I assumed about 500 punts max at the time)

The insurance company settled for 15k even though I wanted to go to court. The costs would have only been as much again.

As in all claims the claimant is medically examined and the injuries verified.

How do you verify "whiplash" or "shock"

How many people on here have sought compensation as a result of an accident at work, in a car or in a public place?

Which prompts my broader concern

1- Professional fees driving up costs
2- Fake claims driving up costs

These are the important issues for the taxpayer and NOT which FF politician had a relative insinuated while we ignore any Labour politicians in similar circumstances.

I don't think she is being hypocritical for the record as it is her mother who made the claim.

That is a meta argument*. In other words, is she being hypocritical by not criticising people who themselves are being hypocritical by not practicing what someone else they apparently support says?
Again I could give another example but I am restricted in what I can post here. See other thread.

*A meta argument being an argument about the nature of argument