Mr. Ciarán Breen:

No. When I presented originally to the Oireachtas finance committee, the first committee meeting after the Vicky Phelan case, there was a discussion about how that settlement was arrived at. The Deputy may recall that. I was asked if there was a contribution by the HSE. I said a contribution was made by the State Claims Agency, on behalf of the HSE, of €25,000. The reason we made that contribution in that particular case was that we were told by the laboratory involved that it was going to go to an additional day of court hearings if we did not make some contribution to that case. We did not want Vicky Phelan to have to spend another day in court. We then decided to make a contribution of €25,000.