Mr. Tony O'Brien:

Yes, although a new system called the national incident management system or NIMS has been rolling out since January of this year. This involves a process that will give the corporate divisions of the HSE direct access in real time to that data. Currently what happens is that the State Claims Agency runs reports on request. In future - and this will be sorted out as part of the planned process for the implementation of this system - at corporate level there will be direct access to that data which there is not at present. There has been an historical issue about access to data in voluntary hospitals and that is being resolved at present. That will provide a much more cohesive system. NIMS, when fully deployed, will enable the HSE to roll in aspects of our own quality and patient safety tracking systems so that there is a single system and the coding to enable the serious reportable events to be captured on that system is currently being put in place. It will then be a singular system.