A civil servant called Orla Fitzpatrick was injured while working in Leinster House. The case was taken against the leas-cheann comhairle, the finance minister and the attorney general. As with so many personal injury cases, the matter was settled before it went to court, for 150,000 euro. As is the normal practice, the legal costs of the victim were paid. The information was released under the Freedom of Information Act, although the exact details of the injuries were not released.
Another recent personal injury case at Leinster House involved Mona Hanafin, the mother of the social welfare minister Mary Hanafin. Mona Hanafin had the bad luck of breaking a bone in her arm in a fall at Leinster House and received €33,280 in a damages.