Ms Helen Shortt:

The first element of the training is that someone has to qualify as a paediatrician. That is the standard medical training that anyone who works within the Irish healthcare service and is eligible to be considered for a consultant appointment has to reach. There is then added training which all of the consultants who work in our forensic medical services attain. This is usually done through the UK because we currently do not employ a sufficient number of them to receive that specific training in Ireland. However, they undertake, as a group of clinicians, regular peer review particularly in the area of forensic evidence collection because, obviously, they must remain competent to be able to undertake that.