Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 October 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

The difficulty is that a State authority, and I am separating that now from healthcare institutions and hospitals, might not know that a claim will be made. Incidents occur and no claims flow from them. In all instances, what happens is that the delegated State authority or healthcare institution puts up on the national incident management system details of the occurrence of an incident. As I said previously, this is a really rich source of data for us and for the individual bodies, which can look at what their risk profile is, how claims against them arise and what they should be doing on a lessons-learned basis to stop claims from happening. The principal aim of that is to not cause harm to people.

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