Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion

9:00 am

Mr. Colm Desmond:

There are several questions which span both agencies. I will respond to the Deputy in no particular order. On the State Claims Agency, adjoining jurisdictions may operate under different legal systems. We would have to provide some information on comparative awards or how they operate if that is what he is asking for, but we are talking about quite a specific legal context within each jurisdiction. We have that here. It is the unpredictability of a certain component of the likely State Agency costs which can create issues for us, as I explained earlier.

I do not have particular data available that I could share with the Deputy here.