David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I find that incredible, given that this is a two-way process. The HSE gives the State Claims Agency information and the agency then reports back to the HSE. It seems that both organisations are telling us that at no point did they see a pattern. In fact, the HSE did see a pattern because it issued a circular in 2016 which showed clearly that it did so. It strikes me that either the HSE saw a pattern and did not report that to the State Claims Agency - which is a problem - or the State Claims Agency itself missed the pattern. In that area of the relationship between the HSE and the agency something was missed somewhere, either intentionally or unintentionally.