Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals

9:00 am

Ms Mairéad Dolan:

We would have to get that from the State Claims Agency directly. These data in note 11, collate what was physically settled and paid in the year on a pay-as-you-go basis, which is how this scheme operates. The €2.792 billion estimated contingent liability is based on the State Claims Agency's actuarial position at our statement of financial position date. That is a cumulative total based on if it became nuclear and we had to find the money, so that is the estimate of what we would potentially have to pay out. I can certainly go back and get that figure in order to determine what new claims would be included in that database.

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