Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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207. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of claims issued against the State via the State Claims Agency which relate to the deaths of persons from Covid-19, after they contracted the virus either in a hospital or nursing home. [4886/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The State Claims Agency (SCA) has a statutory remit to manage personal injury claims on behalf of Delegated State Authorities including the Health Service Executive. The SCA have informed me that the the information below has been extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS).

The information contained within this report was extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS) according to the below criteria:

- The explicit reference to ”hospitals” is interpreted as all claims notified to the SCA against the HSE which relate to incidents occurring in an acute hospital setting.

- The explicit reference to “nursing homes” is interpreted as all claims notified to the SCA against the HSE which relate to incidents occurring within a nursing home (HSE owned and privately owned)

- Claims which relate to incidents occurring within a community health organisation location/unit have not been included in this report.

The number of claims currently being taken against the HSE, notified to the SCA, which arise from the death of a family member as a result of contracting Covid-19 in a HSE Hospital or Nursing Home setting is 44.

Definitions

National Incident Management System (NIMS):

Incidents (which include claims) are reported using the “National Incident Management System”. This is hosted by the State Claims Agency (SCA) for the HSE, other Healthcare enterprises and State Authorities. An incident can be a harmful Incident (Adverse Event), no harm incident, near miss, dangerous occurrence (reportable circumstance) or complaint.