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:

As the Deputy probably knows, we have two risk arms. One deals with non-clinical risks arising and the other deals with clinical risk. One of the principal issues we deal with is how we feed back into the system the lessons learned from the occurrence of claims. We work with Departments and healthcare facilities. The whole aim is to reduce the risk so that, most importantly, there will be no harm to people and in order that we can reduce the cost of claims to the State.