Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

State Claims Agency: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

Never. Where that information has been disclosed, we have never taken any action within the confidentiality provisions. Confidentiality might arise in other circumstances. In some instances where we had a line of similar cases in a class action-type scenario, we were admitting or settling a particular case amidst that group for reasons other than the substantial reasons that gave rise to the cases and we wanted to delineate that case, we might sometimes have requested a confidentiality clause about the settlement. In the overall scheme of the approximately 8,500 cases that we have settled since inception, though, it has rarely occurred, but it has occurred. Sometimes, plaintiffs ask us for a confidentiality clause. Where they do, we always offer it.

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