Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 July 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018

9:00 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

Back in 2010, the then Minister for Health and Children asked me if I would produce a report on thalidomide generally, which I did, which was a comparative look on a cross-jurisdictional basis of how persons affected by thalidomide were treated by different governments in different countries. That report is on the website of the Department of Health. There have been significant issues in these cases in other jurisdictions. For example, because of a particular peculiarity, Diageo is involved in the UK cases. There was a very big settlement done many years ago in those cases. Diageo is clearly not involved in Ireland. There are differences between jurisdictions.

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