Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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345.To ask the Minister for Finance the number of employment-related permanent injury compensation schemes for civil and public servants; and the total budget for each of the years 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [32063/24]

Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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I refer to the answer to PQ No. 233 given by the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform on 9 July last in which the Deputy was advised that this information would be collated by the State Claims Agency (SCA)/National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA).

In answering the current question I wish to set out for the Deputy the SCA's actual role in managing claims on behalf of the State.

The NTMA is known as the SCA when managing personal injury and third-party property damage claims against the State and certain State authorities, as delegated to it, and in providing related risk advice.

Under the Clinical Indemnity Scheme, the SCA manages clinical negligence claims taken against healthcare enterprises, hospitals, and clinical, nursing and allied healthcare practitioners covered by the scheme.

Under the General Indemnity Scheme, the SCA manages personal injury and third-party property damage claims taken against State bodies covered by the scheme.

Any personal injury claims made by staff of a State authority, whose claims are delegated to the SCA for management, against a State authority, would be managed under the General Indemnity Scheme.

The SCA also administers the Garda Compensation Scheme. This Scheme provides for compensation for personal injuries inflicted on a current, or former, member of An Garda Síochána, as a result of a malicious incident.