Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 5 July 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
9:00 am
Mr. Jim Breslin:
The media coverage perhaps led people to believe that this was a widespread practice and that it was not tied to specific cases that we were facing within the courts. That was the basis for this perception, and I do not believe that there is an infringement there. I believe that one is entitled to do that in defending a case. It may not be something that one would like to do, but when one faces those kinds of catastrophic costs, it is an option to take on.
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