Written answer
Departmental Data
174. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of claims received, resolved and outstanding under schemes managed by the State Claims Agency in each of the years 2016 to 2025 and to date in 2026, by claim category and scheme; the number and value of settlements, awards and other compensation payments made in each year; the associated expenditure on legal costs, expert and professional fees and other ancillary costs, by category; and the total expenditure on claims and associated costs in each year, in tabular form. [66749/26]
Comment on this
The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) has informed me, and the Deputy may also be aware, that the State Claims Agency publishes details on it claims management functions in the NTMA Annual Report and Financial Statements.
On this basis the information sought for 2025 can be found in the Annual Report and is publicly available on the NTMA's website.
The relevant State Claims Agency sections of these reports contain information on claims activity, claim categories, schemes, settlements and awards, associated costs, and liabilities by year.
The most recently published Annual Report is available at: www.ntma.ie/annualreport-2025/documents/NTMA-AR25-Eng-Secure.pdf.
To assist the Deputy the relevant SCA information sections are listed below:
• Claims portfolio overview (page 61);
• Claims received and resolved statistics (page 62);
• Mass Action claims information (page 64);
• Costs analysis by scheme and payment type (page 66);
• Active claims and estimated outstanding liability (page 67).
Information relating to earlier years is available in the corresponding State Claims Agency sections of previous NTMA Annual Reports.
Given the time available it has not been possible to produce the tabular information sought for the period from 2016 onwards in time for this response. I will ensure that the information is made available to the Deputy in accordance with the timelines stipulated under Standing Orders.
Information relating to 2026 will be reported on in the NTMA Annual Report 2026, consistent with the Agency's normal annual reporting process.