Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 October 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapters 15 and 16
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 16
National Treasury Management Agency - Financial Statements 2020
9:30 am
Mr. Ciarán Breen:
That is a good question. The Deputy is right that the pandemic forced good behaviours. I do not mean good behaviour from us because we have always been a proponent of mediation, but for some plaintiffs' lawyers, it was an eye-opener, that this was a better system and one can get to a settlement much quicker. When I referred to building on it, as I said in response to a previous speaker, if we had the pre-action protocol, there would be no issuing of proceedings and no going to court-----