Mr. Niall Redmond:

Work needs to commence on that as part of the package of recommendations that the expert panel have made. It is one of those areas that will most likely require a legislative footing and that is reflected in the expert panel's own suggested timeline for that, which takes into account some of the complexities involved.

As was mentioned earlier on, we have commenced work looking at the regulatory framework with HIQA and at how we can improve that. That part of the work has commenced already but there are other commitments in the programme for Government, such as looking at the role of the ombudsman. There are a number of avenues which the State is exploring in relation to that recommendation.