Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

During the course of the summer we received all of the correspondence received up to the end of July. We received batch 1 in the first week of August. We will have to defer consideration of the items we received in the past couple of weeks until next week. We will clear the correspondence received in the first half of the summer. Only a couple of items remains.

No. 2235 is correspondence received from Mr. Ciarán Breen, a director of the State Claims Agency, on National Treasury Management Agency headed paper. We had asked for a note on mass actions. It will feed into our periodic report on claims against the State. We had received a note on settlements reached by the State Claims Agency in the past five years and an information note on periodic payments. We have received a note on the mechanism used in the evaluation of cases by the State Claims Agency, some of which take years to develop. There is also a list of agencies covered. We are writing back to ask them to explain the areas they cover and the aspects of their work not covered by the agency.