Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

On the issue of the State Claims Agency, there is €95 million additional funding and more than a 20% increase on what was estimated for the year. Bearing in mind that the point had been made at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts that during Covid there were a lot of out-of-court settlements, and that that was very cost effective as it were, then one would expect that the estimate would have been fairly close. What accounts for that more than 20% increase in State claims?