Mr. Ciarán Breen:

I will give the Deputy a recent example of that.

We have a clinical risk management team which is made up of doctors, physiotherapists, nurses and other such staff and when incidents are reported in real time through our national incident management system, the team picks up on them in the first instance and analyses them and then it also looks at our closed claims. Recently, when we were looking at a particular hospital, we discovered that there may be a problem in a particular unit with a particular practitioner. What we did was a very in-depth analysis of our expert reports on the claims and we looked at other incidents. What we do then is we have an active engagement with the hospital. In the particular case, the hospital will carry out its own independent investigation when we provide it with information that would appear to indicate there is a very definite cluster associated with the particular practitioner.