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:

Yes, and there is no suggestion they are obstructing. It is a huge discovery. I come back to the point that this committee would require of me that I exercise all the ordinary inquiries I should make in any individual case. I have to treat this group of unfortunate plaintiffs because of an unfortunate narcolepsy condition the same as I would any person making a claim, which is that I have to be sure, before the State pays out, that the State is liable and that the causation requirements are fulfilled. The kind of conversation the Deputy is saying we should have, or that our solicitors on our instructions should have-----

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