Professor Harry Kennedy:

I stand to be corrected on the question of when but it was some years ago, perhaps five or six. I am not great on the exact detail of when that was. On the question of why, I was told it was national IR rules about recruitment and licensing for who is entitled to recruit. Prior to that, every clinical service within the HSE did its own recruitment and it worked better that way because people either chose to work in a specialist service like ours or they did not. We have had mixed results with panels. It has been better lately than it was before but it could be even better.