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

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The most disturbing aspect is that according to the Comptroller and Auditor General, 40% of all the claims received had not already been notified to the agency as being adverse incidents. Mr. Breen referred to early disclosure but that is not working if, in 40% of the cases that land on his desk, his agency has no advance knowledge of them. Is that a correct presumption? We are miles away from getting the early disclosure which in theory is supposed to happen in practice.