Mr. Ciarán Breen:

I stated earlier that our preference in medical negligence cases generally would be to proceed by way of mediation. Of course, we have the Mediation Act 2017 now, which has come into force. That is very helpful in terms of trying to turn the pattern around from ordinary last-minute negotiations at the Law Library in the previous context, where I described that we might have tried sometimes to settle the case well in advance of that but find that we are met by an impossible demand for compensation and then it settles ultimately for the kind of figures that we would have offered previously but did not get to offer.