Professor Jim Lucey:

That is the holistic answer for that complexity of service. As I said, we are thinking about this huge investment we are making as a society in healthcare in Ireland and we are saying a stark thing: without regulation there are variants, which is very worrying. The report's findings are unquestionable and valid. There is no doubt about it. The Senator is quite right. We need to commend Dr. Finnerty, the commission, and my predecessors who were involved, on doing this good piece of work. Those data, granular though they are, need to be brought together. In a sense, the answer is we need standard setting in order that everyone is playing to the same beat.