Ms Caron McCaffrey:

In February 2020, the State Claims Agency put in place a settlement scheme to deal with the claims relating to in-cell sanitation. Significant progress has been made on concluding those claims. There have been 2,773 claims received, of which 2,040 are concluded. I suppose the contingent liability that the State Claims Agency put against that scheme was quite high at over €30 million but the expectation now is the scheme will be concluded at around €15 million. There are specific caps in place for compensation and there are also caps in place regarding legal fees that can be paid.