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. Seamus McCarthy:

We outline in the chapter the process of information feedback and my understanding is that it would be a key tool for dealing with issues that arise. On the one hand there would be an expectation that, in this case, the HSE would inform the State Claims Agency of incidents when they occur so that the agency would be in a position to identify patterns and then to feed back that information to the HSE, advising it, as Mr. Breen mentioned, on steps that might need to be taken to prevent future claims.