Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 10 February 2022
403. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the amount each hospital has paid out in compensation in each of the years 2018 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and the reason for payments, in tabular form. [7174/22]
View answerThe State Claims Agency (SCA) has a statutory remit to manage personal injury claims on behalf of Delegated State Authorities including the Health Service Executive. I have been informed by the SCA that the information contained in the attached report has been extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS) according to the below criteria:
Criteria used
- Payments relate to Acute Statutory and Voluntary Hospitals only.
- Amount paid in damages for the period 2018-2022 YTD (07/02/2022).
- This report is correct as of 07/02/2022
Question 1
Table 1 shows the total amount paid in damages per year for Acute Hospitals from 2018 to 2021. The Incident/Hazard Category associated with the damages paid are included. In order to protect the anonymity of individual records, some Hospital Groups and Hazard categories have been grouped together where there are a low number of records. Due to the low numbers of damages paid in 2022, these amounts are shown in Table 2 as a total figure for each of the hospital groups.
