Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation

9:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

The cost of insurance working group, which is chaired by the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Michael D'Arcy, is going through various modules and looking at different aspects of this, including damages awards. It will look at how damages are assessed and whether there are opportunities for judges to have a book of quantum, so that people can understand what the level of damages is for different injuries. There is complexity in the fact that one injury might affect one man in one way and another man in a different way.

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