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:
They are complex cases. The thalidomide survivors also have complex needs. As part of the mediation process, the State paid for experts to examine the thalidomide survivors. For example, they were looked at by cardiologists, orthopaedic surgeons and vocational rehabilitation consultants. It takes a long time to get all of these reports together.
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