Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

State Claims Agency: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Ciarán Breen:

In regard to the other cases, I have very carefully noted what the Taoiseach said and, obviously, we would take his remarks very seriously and do everything we possibly can to ensure that other families who are involved in these ten cases do not suffer the same trauma. None of these cases should go to trial. That is the reality. In three of the cases, the US laboratory has indemnified the agency.

On the Senator's last point, I understand that some of the women have died between the original smear and now.