Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 22 November 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence

9:00 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Some €1.18 billion went to awards and legal fees. There must have been some learning from the scandal. Was a post-mortem conducted to identify what was handled well and what was not? We have a habit of creating problems or crises in the healthcare system and elsewhere and then resolving them. It is something of a national pastime. We do not always learn from the experiences of the past. Was a review conducted to consider what would be done differently if such a problem emerged now and what could have been done to avoid the problem?

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