Mr. Ciaran Breen:

When I was before the committee last time one of the points made to me about clinical negligence litigation related to ensuring that we were managing several of these claims through in-house solicitors. We did that and we set up the unit. It is established.

I wish to make a further point to Deputy Fleming. The latest figures for 2013 in terms of costs as a percentage of damages - I am referring to our costs and the plaintiffs' costs - is 44%. The National Health Service Litigation Authority is our equivalent in the United Kingdom, where costs are always said to be lower. In clinical negligence cases the authority's combined costs as a percentage of damages is 55%. That is the comparison and the authority is doing exactly the same work that we are doing.