Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This, of course, does involve quite a number of potential legal cases so I need to be careful about what I say. The State's approach to cases like this and others is to try to resolve them outside the court setting in a non-adversarial way, but there has to be acceptance of blame.

I expect that there will be an effort to try to resolve genuine cases outside of court. I will get the Minister for Health to come back to Deputy Kenny with a more detailed response as I do not know any more than the Deputy.

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