Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

That is a good thing. I hope people are reassured by what the Minister has said, particularly people who were hoping to get access to these new medicines. They can get access to the drug their GP or their specialist recommended or they can get a biosimilar. That is really important because people have written to me, and I am sure written to all TDs, because they are very worried they cannot get access to this particular drug because of the cutbacks and so forth.

My final question relates to the State Claims Agency. The cost is €510 million this year. I was struck by the incremental increase in State claims from last year or the previous year. It is a huge amount of money. I understand how claims can be set against a medical environment. In the past three to five years, have claims against the State relating to negligence incrementally gone up every single year?