Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Department and the HSE provide a detailed note on the matter, not just a note stating that it happened and that X was responsible for it. The ladies and gentlemen seated behind Mr. McCallion are from the State Claims Agency. It takes ten years to work through many of its cases. In cases involving catastrophic injury at birth children are often nine or ten years old by the time they get to court. Five years is a very short timeframe in the context of a case which involves a significant health issue. While what happened might have occurred in a normal commercial environment, in the context of health and potential litigation, the timeframe should be much longer. I ask the witnesses to provide a detailed note on the matter.