The State Claims Agency (SCA) is part of the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), which is a body under the aegis of the Minister for Finance. The SCA have supplied the information included in this report, and confirmed that it is correct as of 14 May 2018.
This report shows the number of claims finalised between 2008 to date by the SCA in relation to historical child sexual abuse claims as recorded on National Incident Management System (NIMS).
Historical child sexual abuse claims are assumed to be claims with a Date of Incident recorded on NIMS as 2000 or earlier.
With regard to the number of claims settled by the SCA in each year from 2008 to 2018, please see Table 1.
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018
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Total
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Total Number of Finalised Claims
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79
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130
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53
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85
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27
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33
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7
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35
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85
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39
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16
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587
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Table 1: Finalised historical child sexual abuse claims
With regard to the value of the damages awarded in each year, please see Table 2.
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2008
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2009
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2010
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2011
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2012
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2013
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2014
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2015
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2016
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2017
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2018*
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Total (€)
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Total (€)
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456,250
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889,100
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715,500
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229,828
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575,000
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0
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30,000
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221,500
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45,000
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653,930
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0
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3,816,108
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Table 2: Finalised historical child sexual abuse claims with damages awarded
In a significant number of historic abuse cases, the State has no legal liability to the Plaintiffs and it is not uncommon for such cases to be resolved with no damages payments being made by the State. This accounts for the lack of damages paid in 2013.