Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 28 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
Chapter 29 - Clinical Indemnity Scheme
2012 Annual Report and Accounts - National Pensions Reserve Fund

2:10 am

Mr. Ciaran Breen:

Almost immediately. I will explain the process. When a letter of claim comes in or, indeed, a summons, we immediately engage with the hospital, with all the practitioners. We take statements from them, we review the medical records and we start the commissioning of our medical evidence.