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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Could I get clarification regarding the process? We are talking about €5 million. Would the same process have been available for the payment of €20 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: A process is in place relating to the payment of moneys. In this case, it was a payment of €5 million. I am asking if the same process would be in place were a €20 million call for funds to be paid out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: In other words, this could have been €20 million as much as it could have been €5 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I come from a legal background, so I would have been involved in drawing down loans on a constant basis, both commercial loans and housing loans. There was a whole series of checks and balances, particularly in relation to documentation. I am concerned about how, with the process the NTMA has, something like this was allowed to slip through without the process being triggered. Was the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: What I am asking is whether the problem was identified when the genuine call came in for the €5 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I am asking how it was identified. Was it identified once the genuine call came in and it was suddenly realised that the €5 million was already paid out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: So in other words, if that genuine call was not made, it might not have been identified for a further week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: One of the issues the witnesses raised earlier was that a number of people were involved in this process. Are there too many people dealing with a particular process and confusion can arise as a result?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Moving away from that, I will discuss the payments from the State Claims Agency. If we settled every claim in the morning that was currently pending, what kind of money would we be talking about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Of that €5.3 billion, how much do medical negligence claims make up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Talking about medical negligence claims and ignoring all the other claims against the State, where do we stand with regard to the level of claims compared with other European countries? Are we currently ahead of the United States?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Does that €460 million include costs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: All aspects of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: The level of claims is at €4.3 billion. Is there now a need to look at whether we can do this in a better way? I know we did a review before. The review was to bring in savings but that has not happened. Other countries have a different structure for how they manage claims. Is there not a need now to look again at and revisit how we go forward over the next ten to 15 years? There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Is that not one of the problems, especially with regard to HSE facilities? Due to the whole medical-admin separation, there seems to be a far slower process for dealing with concerns that are genuinely raised by patients or patients' families, with delays in them getting responses, leading to frustration and a legal consultation? Have we actually made any progress on that in the last five years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I think Mr. Breen accepts that if that was done at a faster pace, we might have a better outcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the NTMA on Matters Relating to its Operation (22 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: Is it not a problem that we have a challenge whereby there is a reluctance among people to stay in the particular areas of medicine they want to focus on because of the level of claims and the risks involved?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I thank the Minister. One of the issues I raised concerned Barnardos and the work it is doing. These are two separate programmes, but this is about co-ordination and working together. It is extremely important that this happens. The work the Department is doing means it has now acquired a great deal of expertise. It is the same with Barnardos and what it is doing. It also has a large...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the progress of the €5 million pilot programme of counselling and well-being and mental health supports for the academic years 2024-25; to provide a breakdown of the progress in Cork in particular; if there are plans to expand the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40008/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (17 Jul 2025)

Colm Burke: I ask the Minister for to provide an