Urgent renegotiation for hit-and-run victims
Taylor presses Connolly to renegotiate immediately rather than wait for Brussels, citing serious injuries and delays. Connolly expects the EEC outcome may take only months but makes no commitment to negotiate now.
Would the Minister of State not agree that, by reason of the appalling increase in serious injuries caused to people in hit and run accidents and the urgency of the matter, it would be entirely inadvisable to wait for the result from Brussels, because that might take years? Would he not now renegotiate the agreement with the insurers' bureau as we have been trying for more than 20 years to try to get them to agree that compensation would be paid to people receiving serious injuries as a result of hit and run accidents?
Comment on this
I do not accept it will be years before agreement is reached. It might only be a matter of months, I am not able to say, but I will keep the matter under consideration.