Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 March 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency: Discussion
Chapter 20: Management of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme of the Report on the Accounts of Public Services 2021

9:30 am

Mr. Ciar?n Breen:

We do. I did not want to play it down. For us, the adequacy of records is a major issue because sometimes, in assessments in court, for example, or a particular clinical claim, the inadequacy of records can become an issue and can go to the negligence in the particular case, so it is very much an issue for us in that sense.