Mr. Ciar?n Breen:

It is very rare that the State Claims Agency has a case where the legal costs exceed the level of compensation. That is largely because we do not have many small cases per seif you know what I mean, or cases that are not at the catastrophic injury level or at levels below that. The cases involve an average quantum from €250,000 the whole way up to the kind of figures such as the more than €30 million we paid in an individual cerebral palsy case. Having said that, there is no doubt but that legal costs are a problem for us. If we look at the cost of both schemes, legal costs are a particular issue there.