Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I will respond on that specific point. All of the appropriation accounts have this note and the structure of the note is set out in the template, which is directed by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is not a great note from an information point of view. It is opaque and there are many difficulties with it. There should be better information available and it should be available on a Department-by-Department basis. The State Claims Agency handles all of these on behalf of Departments. There should be better information available from it as to the amount of compensation paid out on a claim and the associated legal costs, whenever they were paid. That might be the first place to go to look for what information is already available from the State Claims Agency on these.