Mr. Pat Healy:

There is a clear rule set around protected disclosures. That is why a national authorised officer deals with them. It was the authorised officer who initiated the Conal Devine inquiry.

The distinction is that in this current review which is being undertaken by Resilience - the look-back review - will examine matters between 1983 and 1993. The South Eastern Health Board, the HSE and voluntary organisations have not placed anybody with the family in question since 1993. Resilience will look back at matters between 1983 and 1993 to identify all those individuals living and willing to participate in a study to establish what the details were. The particular focus is to ensure they have appropriate services and anything else that could be learned. That is a look-back and tracing exercise.