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:

Yes. We always analyse our individual cases at our claims teams' meetings. We look at why a particular case might have gone on over an extended period and what the reasons were for that. We ask ourselves whether there were things to which we were contributing in terms of that length. We do that kind of analysis. Then, we also look at the behaviour of plaintiffs' lawyers who sometimes do not want to engage at an earlier time. The Chairman can imagine that in some cases, they do not want to because the longer a case goes on, the more costs they can claim, particularly in the adjudication of costs system.

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