Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have reviewed the whole issue in terms of industrial accidents, and claims for industrial accidents and car accidents over the past ten years. The one area that we have parked and did nothing about, in fact, is medical negligence and we have let that roll on the way it is going. The biggest problem for the State is in fighting any of these claims, or trying to minimise the claims, there is a huge cost factor if it goes into a trial because a trial will last for anything up to four to five weeks. Do we now need to do an overall review about how we manage these claims and how we deal with the structure that is there at this stage? If so, has the Department started that process?