Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency: Discussion
Chapter 20: Management of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme of the Report on the Accounts of Public Services 2021

9:30 am

Photo of Catherine MurphyCatherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I am not talking about cases with catastrophic ends, but what sometimes influences somebody to take a case is the attitude of the offender, or the perceived offender. Very often, hands-up apologies can be proffered and some sort of mitigation offered. What is awful is when people come out to the steps of a courtroom and say nobody ever apologised. In what scenario does that become almost a culture? What advice would the SCA give in respect of something like that?

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