Social Care Minister Kathleen Lynch has admitted she doesn't know if any HSE official has been disciplined for the horrific foster care abuse case in the south east, two decades after it happened.

A common thread running through the litany of institutional failures at the CRC, Irish Water and the penalty points scandal was bad governance resulting in nobody being held responsible, according to public service expert Dr Eddie Molloy.

Cork City Council has spent almost €1m dealing with 47 claims linked to trips and falls since the start of 2011.