Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It was mentioned that of the 23,000 practitioners registered, the level of complaints has remained static over the past three years. Do we have a larger picture, because the shedding of consultants from the Irish system started in 2008 to 2009, roughly speaking? Have we a picture of the past ten years rather than the past three years? What I am trying to get at is that as many consultants started to leave around that time, for all of the reasons given, was there any correlation between the shedding of Irish consultants from the system and a subsequent rise in complaints? Are there data to suggest that or do the witnesses have data to hand? Was there any peak?