Dr. Tony Holohan:

I take that point completely. We have strengthened some provisions in the Department and the patient safety office in respect of what we call patient safety surveillance because of what we uncovered in Portlaoise. I refer to the deaths of the four babies that came to public notice in the early part of 2014. When we had an opportunity to ask a number of agencies, each of which had a different relationship with the hospital, whether they had a concern, it became clear that there were a number of pieces of a jigsaw that had not been put together. Therefore, our intention in creating a patient safety surveillance function is to try to put all the information on one table so there is as much early warning as possible. As the Deputy rightly said, there is little point in having one organisation understanding something if another that could act does not have access to the information. We are committed to addressing this.

Mr. Keating might speak about resources.