Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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We need to have a look at the structure of the State Claims Agency and we have not done that sufficiently. It became clear when we were looking at the CervicalCheck issue that proceedings had to be issued in court before the agency even knew about it. It did not seem that there was a mechanism to do open disclosure in a way that was non-legalistic. That has to be part of what we do when we examine the agency because we will have to keep going back on individual streams of work that relate to different issues such as CervicalCheck or thalidomide unless we get to that.