State Claims Agency Data

Tuesday, 24 July 2018

Ceisteanna (162)

Michael McGrath

Ceist:

162. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Finance the amount paid out by the State Claims Agency or awarded in respect of personal injury claims both including and excluding medical negligence claims to date in 2018, by relevant State body the claims related to; the corresponding figure for the same period in 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33790/18]

Amharc ar fhreagra

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Finance

I refer the deputy to PQ 1476/18 in which the data for 2016 and 2017 has already been provided. The information for 2018 from January to June is addressed in the tables.

The State Claims Agency (SCA) has advised me of the information contained in this report, which has been extracted from the National Incident Management System (NIMS). These figures were correct as of 1st July 2018.

Total amount paid for 2018 from January to June and includes damages, legal fees and other expert fees. (It excludes the deduction of reimbursements or third party contributions)

Personal Injury includes incidents related to a person only, which includes service users, staff and member of the public.

In order to avoid breaches of data protection legislation, some delegated authorities have been merged where appropriate to avoid possible identification of individual payments. In relation to this, the SCA are only showing delegated authorities with payments above €50,000. All other state authorities with payments made in 2018 have been merged into the “Other” category.

Table 1 illustrates all payments in the Healthcare sector broken down by Clinical* and General* where Transaction Report Date Year is between January and June in 2018.

-	Amount Payable (€)
Clinical	€134,317,667.38
General	€24,499,610.91
Total	€158,817,278.29

Table 2 illustrates all payments outside of Healthcare by delegated state authorities. This relates to claims under the General Indemnity Scheme where Transaction Report Date Year is between January and June in 2018.

Other Delegated Authorities	Amount Payable (€)
Defence Forces	€3,321,434.97
Irish Prison Service	€2,549,183.43
An Garda Síochána	€1,914,229.74
Tusla	€956,519.45
Community & Comprehensive Schools	€571,425.53
Office of Public Works	€529,154.92
Solas	€212,994.38
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - Offices	€181,899.43
Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation	€144,256.42
Department of Social Protection	€144,080.68
Day Schools	€135,397.34
Revenue Commissioners	€123,226.62
Courts Service	€104,998.72
Childrens Detention Schools	€99,034.12
Department of Health	€70,618.69
Probation Service	€69,888.92
National Museum of Ireland	€62,154.93
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade	€56,169.44
Other*	€187,707.95
Total	€11,434,375.68

Definitions:

National Incident Management System (NIMS)

Incidents (which include claims) are reported using NIMS (previously known as STARSWeb). This is hosted by the SCA for the Health Service Executive (HSE), other Healthcare enterprises and State Authorities. An incident can be a harmful incident (Adverse Event), no harm incident, near miss, dangerous occurrence (reportable circumstance) or complaint.

An Incident can relate to a person, property, crash/collision, dangerous occurrence or complaint.

Transaction Reporting Date

This refers to the date that payments were issued. These payments include damages, legal fees and other expert fees.

Clinical

Clinical incident on NIMS is one which falls under the Incident Hazard category of Clinical Care. This category includes incidents relating to the provision of services of a diagnostic or palliative nature. It also includes incidents relating to the provision of treatment. Incidents present in this category will be related to clinical procedures, birth specific procedures, medication incidents, or nutrition/blood related incidents.

General

A general incident on NIMS is one which falls outside of the Clinical Care Incident hazard category. This includes all incidents relating to Exposure to Physical Hazards, Exposure to Psychological Hazards, Exposure to Chemical Hazards, Exposure to Biological Hazards and Crashes/Collisions.

Other

In this category we include all the delegated state authorities with total amount paid below €50,000.

Delegated state authorities in this category are:

Waterways Ireland, Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Residential Institutions, Department of Justice and Equality, Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Department of Education and Skills, National Gallery of Ireland, Model Schools, Department of Defence, National Assets Management Agency, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Houses of the Oireachtas Service, Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, and Legal Aid Board.