Ms Rachel Flynn:

This legislation makes provisions that HIQA will be setting standards in the area of data matching, information resources, data management and data sharing, in effect setting the standards for interoperability. We currently do this under our own Health Act, so the expertise would be within the Authority, but because we will be doing it across both the public and private sectors, not just for the HSE but for those outside the executive, we would need additional resources to do that. The expertise would be within the country and in HIQA currently.