Tógfaidh mé Ceisteanna Uimh. 305 agus 306 le chéile.
My Department, in accordance with public financial procedures, does not have employers or public liability insurance. The basis for this position is set out in the public financial procedures as follows:
The general rule is that no insurance should be effected against the risk of any loss which, if it arose, would fall wholly and directly on public funds. This is based on the understanding that the risks for which the Government is liable are innumerable and widely distributed and that losses maturing in any one year are never so large as materially to disturb the financial position of the year so that it is cheaper in the long-term for the Exchequer to carry its own insurance.