Statement from Govt this evening on #NursingHomesGate. Seems they paid out €480m under one heading but that was, according to Mail, less than 10% of estimated liability. Curious that not one single claim made it to an open court, consistent with concealment strategy. 
It's a red herring about the origination date of the legal strategy, whether it was 2002, 2007 or 2011, fact is, it was continued throughout the last decade.
If it's true that 300,000 people were affected by govt failings on providing nursing home care, then the payout of €480m equates to €1600 per person. That really looks unrealistically low.
Irish Daily Mail will tomorrow publish documents which evidence its reporting on Sunday. Leo Varadkar was made explicitly aware as health minister in 2016. The legal strategy was drafted in 2011 [doesn't rule out previous iterations].
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