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:

I have agreed with the Chairman to break out maternity cases, given that they cost the most. We will break out all specialties by hospital group. In other words, we will not go into those specialties and break out maternity separately. The difficulty remains that in certain categories, for example in a particular specialty and a particular hospital, there might only be one or two practitioners. A breakdown of claims would therefore get very close to identifying a particular practitioner and particular cases, with all the difficulties that might come with such identification. We are trying to give the committee more granular information by separating maternity cases from the rest. I have agreed to this with the Chairman.

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