Mr. Ciarán Breen:

I thank Deputy Timmins. It is extremely difficult in the system to hurry things up. One is largely dependent on how the plaintiff takes their case and then there is the courts and the normal delays there. One thing we are doing, and we have increased the figure substantially over the years, is the number of cases we are doing by mediation. We have moved to mediate most of our clinical negligence cases at this stage. Last year we had 46% of cases where damages were paid or resolved through mediation. It is a so much quicker, effective and better process for everybody but particularly for the families of clinical negligence victims.