asked the Minister for Social Welfare why no report of the Committee on Workmen's Compensation, which was set up five years ago, has been made to date; if he is aware that a system of Workmen's Compensation has been operating in Canada for thirty years in a highly satisfactory manner in which there is a money saving to the employer and at the same time there are vastly greater benefits to an injured employee; and that the Canadian legislation calls for no subsidy from the State; if the Committee have got full details of this system; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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I would direct the Deputy's attention to the replies which I gave in the Dáil on the 22nd February and on the 1st March, in which I said that the Commission on Workmen's Compensation has reported and that arrangements for printing the Reports were in train. Some neostyled copies have been issued to the Press and placed in the Oireachtas Library.
I am aware that the Commission, which was set up in 1955, examined the systems in operation in more than seventy countries, including Canada.