Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 May 2018

Public Accounts Committee

State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

I am passing on information rather than having my own view on it. As I understand it, the Legal Services Regulation Act is quite high level. It is an enabling clause and there is quite a deal of complexity to set out the actual rules around pre-action protocols. Some Acts are very clearly set out and the regulation is to commence them. In this case, a lot of work has to be done post the Act to set out the detail of how it will operate.