Ms Moyagh Murdock:

I also point out that the Deputy says that under his Bill, the Central Bank must record and provide the information that would have been paid out previously if the new guidelines had not been applied. The way we interpret it is we have already three years of information in the motor claims database and one year, nearly two years, of information in the liabilities database. Data on all the prejudicial council review award levels were already collected in respect of similar injuries. The information recorded up to now already gives that information on what the award levels were prior to the new guidelines. It would be quite easy to compare post- and pre-data guideline award levels changes. As my colleague said, there will be a flag on any new cases going through and any new award levels being input into the database as to whether they are awards under the new guidelines or awards under the old guidelines because many of the cases are coming through together.