asked the Minister for Social Welfare what amount of disability benefit would be payable from the Social Insurance Fund to an agricultural worker (in the circumstances outlined in a Question of 4th May, 1961) who had received damages at common law, independently of the Workmen's Compensation Acts.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Agricultural Workers' Disability Benefit.
14.
There is no provision in the Social Welfare Acts which precludes the payment of disability benefit to an insured person in respect of any period of incapacity for work due to an accident for which he has recovered damages at Common Law. Accordingly, an agricultural worker or any other insured person who recovers damages at Common Law is entitled to the full appropriate rate of disability benefit payable in his case while incapacitated for work as a result of such an accident.