Mr. Ciar?n Breen:

Yes, very much so. The enterprise risk unit in the State Claims Agency engages with all those and particularly where the claims are emerging, such as in the Irish Prison Service or the Department of Defence. A formal audit process is carried out by the State Claims Agency in respect of standards the State Claims Agency is setting based on the learning from claims. To give one small example, there was a hospital where we identified that needlestick injuries were occurring. A number of needlestick injuries over a period of a year or whatever, as the committee can imagine, will cost a certain amount of money where people have been injured by them. We saw an adverse pattern there and engaged with the hospital, and in a short period, no claims were emerging in respect of needlestick injuries.

That is an example of the kind of initiative we undertake with the State authorities.