Mr. Ciarán Breen:

The clinical indemnity scheme was established in 2002 and our agency was established in 2001. As has been the case with many defendants over the years, up to when we started to espouse open disclosure as the proper thing to do, there were probably occasions where confidentiality clauses were put into settlements. Without going back over individual cases, I am guessing that, of the 8,500 clinical cases we have resolved, no more than a dozen and a half or perhaps two dozen were in that category over all those years.