Mr. Andrew Condon:

It is an independent committee that brings in people from outside the HSE - patient representatives who do not work in the HSE, clinical experts, people from training bodies, etc. - to tell it how to do it. It is an independent voice. For a number of years the HSE was doing it on its own, but that was not best practice. We now have an independent committee. Inevitably with an independent committee, there is useful tension between what it might be thinking and what-----