Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will contact the State Claims Agency and-or the Department directly.

We had this before with claims against hospitals and paediatric units. The agency does not want to identify a particular region because it might be unfair to the region in question if there happened to be a large number of claims in a certain year. If the information on the public record is overanalysed, it could give the people who are taking the claims against the State an indication of how much it is setting aside in respect of their claims before they go to court. That would disadvantage the taxpayer, and we need to be responsible for the taxpayer. We will ask for the breakdown of the categories to the extent that this can be provided without compromising their defence of the cases.