§ 69. Mr. Roseasked the Minister of Social Security whether any further progress has now been made towards providing a solution to the problem of employees suffering from non-prescribed diseases not caused by accident which, on the balance of probability, have arisen out of and in the case of employment.
§ Mr. LoughlinAn expert and authoritative Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. F. W. Beney, Q.C., examined this problem as part of a comprehensive 47W review of the diseases provisions of the Industrial Injuries Act, 1946, but concluded that there was no practical alternative within the existing framework to the present method of prescribing industrial diseases. There have been no developments since which offer any solution to this problem.