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:
It would be wrong to leave the public with an impression that we have just done mediation as a reaction to the cervical cancer cases. It is our stated practice in respect of medical negligence cases in particular.
We also do it in other cases. For example, bullying and harassment cases are very amenable to mediation. It is our preferred way to go. Sometimes we find the obstruction comes from plaintiffs' lawyers who do not like the mediation process because of a cost issue.
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