Mr. Ciar?n Devane:

I am satisfied that an awful lot of attention is being given to it, including by us as a board. At every meeting we will be talking about urgent and scheduled care and we will be looking at the data. We need to made sure some of the good practice that is out there is uniformly out there. If you read the minutes of the report on the Aoife Johnston case, it talks about the implementation of guidance, for example. One of the questions we have been asking is whether we are confident we have processes in place such that the best practice is not only in Limerick but is elsewhere as well.

We do not want to only be looking at Limerick and suddenly find we have a problem over there. Part of our role is to see if we can lift our heads for a minute and pose the same question of every other emergency department in the land, how many of the recommendations in the report would we be saying we have yet to implement?