Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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The State Claims Agency straddles all Departments. While the biggest contingent liability is in the area of health, there are liabilities and risk assessments in other Departments and it is quite useful for us to be able to match one against the other. We could see there was a drop in some claims by actions that were taken in respect of the risk assessments that were done in some of the prisons. That was one of the things that came out. If we are doing a piece of work on open disclosure, the HSE, the State and contingent liability, there are other liabilities under the State Claims Agency that could be part of that report. What we are really trying to get at concerns the State Claims Agency, how we function, how litigious we are and how much is potentially being spent in the courts unnecessarily. This will be useful in that context.