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

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Something occurred to me recently. If two children are born on the same day and one has a genetic abnormality while the other suffers a catastrophic incident at birth, an award of, for example, €40 million might be made to provide for the latter's care. The child born with the genetic abnormality might have the same needs, though. As someone working in the Oireachtas, it needs to be highlighted that, if one child gets the bungalow with rails and so on that he or she requires because blame can be attributed to the State or whoever and the other child, who was just born that way and no one is to blame, so to speak, does not necessarily get-----

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