Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

There are groups of cases where there are significant liability of causation at law type issues or statute of limitation issues involved, for example, with the exception of the in-cell sanitation which the Chairman spoke about. In regard to in-cell sanitation, there was a lead case. The lead case went to the High Court. The High Court did not award any damages, as it happened. It did find that there was a breach of privacy and that is now on a leapfrog appeal, which was only recently accepted by the Supreme Court. Until such time as we get a determination in that particular case, the other cases simply back up and wait their place.

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