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:

That was the drop dead date. I am talking about when we became aware of that drop dead date from German authorities. Between that date and midnight before the drop dead date, we tried to make the offer of €62,500. I was in the room when the offer was made after the courts closed on that day. That was not of our making. We were trying to make contact with the plaintiff's solicitor to draw attention to the fact that this was a drop dead date and we wanted to do the right thing by making these offers available so they could be taken up without that kind of punitive sanction that would be set off.

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