Mr. Ciarán Breen:

I do not think so. The Deputy made some comparisons with countries that are not common-law jurisdictions. If we look to the UK, which is a better comparator, we see that in its accounts for 2021, €2.3 billion has been paid out under its clinical negligence scheme and the other non-clinical negligence schemes in operation there. In a common-law jurisdiction such as ours, where there is a court process, there is a significant element of any claim that is compensation and then we have all the costs, of both plaintiff and defendant, on top of that. That is a unique feature of common-law jurisdictions and, therefore, making comparisons with other European countries or Canada is not quite the same.