Minister for Business Heather Humphreys lashes out at 'fraudulent or exaggerated claims' | JOE.ie

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"My view on this is very simple. People need to have some common sense and they need to be responsible for their own safety. So if you trip or you fall, you have to ask yourself why it happened, and more often than not the answer is because of your own carelessness.

"But people need to accept that, and we need to change this culture, because there's a culture in this country that says when you have an accident, it's everyone's fault except your own."Humphreys' fellow Fine Gael member Maria Bailey has been in the headlines recently for a claim she made against The Dean in Dublin, after she fell off the swings outside Sophie's on the fifth floor.

It later transpired that she had run a 10km race three weeks after the incident, despite claiming in court documents that she could not run at all for three months.

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