Mr. Ciarán Breen:

The Deputy has made a good point. Between 2016 and 2020, there was a 36% increase - which includes mass actions - in the number of clinical claims and there was a 21% increase in the number of general claims. The Deputy might be interested to know that in 2019, we had 2,375 non-clinical claims. That figure dropped off to 1,958 in 2020, which equates to a 17% decrease. The Deputy is correct in that we expect that figure to pick up as the courts get into their stride again and we return to normality following the intense period of the pandemic.