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

Mr. Ciar?n Breen:

That is very difficult. If, for example, we are transacting negotiations with plaintiff's lawyers, many offers are being put and many counter-offers are being put. While we record those, sometimes in our file notes etc., we do not actually document what they were originally looking and what did we ultimately settle at. If I may offer this anecdotal observation, frequently in catastrophic injury cases we are asked for sums of €50 or €60 million, which ultimately settle for sums in the order of €20 or €25 million.

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