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:

No. We issue a list of sensitive cases to Government, which I believe is in the public domain, via the Minister for Finance. It is presented along with the sensitive case list of the Attorney General. It was agreed in 2007 that that list would not include medical negligence cases because almost all medical negligence cases are sensitive, involving particular trauma. We had to consider how many such cases should appear on such a sensitive list. Sometimes we do not know when a case involves the kind of sensitivity that Ms Phelan's case had. It is not always immediately apparent to us.

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