Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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Question 269: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department withdrew a Supreme Court appeal in respect of a case (details supplied). [22972/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that the management of child abuse claims taken against the State was formally delegated to the State Claims Agency (SCA) by Government Order made in July 2005. The effect of a delegation order was that the SCA would act in place of my Department in instructing a legal team in defending and, where appropriate, settling claims made against the Minister for Education and Science.

The decision to withdraw the Supreme Court appeal in the case referred to by the Deputy was taken by the State Claims Agency having regard to the facts of this particular case. It is not the policy of my Department to comment on individual cases and I do not intend to diverge from that practice in this instance.