Mr. Ciarán Breen:

Yes. I was on the judicial committee - the clinical negligence committee - which originally brought this forward in 2010. What we did around that time was that we took the step ourselves of putting in place PPOs because we felt that was what we should do as an immediate reaction, on the basis that we would get the necessary statutory underpinning.

It has taken a long time. For us, it creates quite a lot of problems because it brings families back before the courts on returnable dates of either two, three or five years. If we can put in place five-year PPOs or sometimes eight-year PPOs we will try to do that as well, but if we had the legislation it would be a much easier path both for the families and for us.