Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I take the point the Deputy is making. I refer her to a document which she might find useful where this is examined. It is the Garda appropriation accounts, which are published every September. That is examined publicly by the Comptroller and Auditor General. The approach to compensation is examined in detail.

The Deputy's other point applies to any organisation. If people are dealing with cases and there is compensation involved and so on, clearly there is a loss to the organisation. She is asking how that is accounted for in terms of the impact on the organisation. Most of these claims are dealt with the State Claims Agency, SCA, and we capture a certain amount of the overall cost. The Deputy would need to examine a combination of the Garda appropriation accounts, which are publicly audited and published, the SCA approach to these cases and the figures we have built in here as part of that. It is a complex picture, which is captured in different places.