Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 September 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

2:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

In relation to the hepatitis C and HIV compensation, I am sorry but I would prefer to not give any more information on that. I have reported on it and we will find the report. It gives the history of all of that and it brings it up to a current date. I cannot remember when we did it. It was probably 2018 or 2019. That will give members a picture of what the expenditure involved there is. Obviously, it is compensation and reparation for people that were harmed. From memory, that looks like the kind of money that was spent per year for the last number of years.