Mr. Ciarán Devane:

Some of the Sláintecare activity is already funded and is within the envelope. There will be other matters within and outside the HSE where we will be asking for extra funding. That debate will continue.

I take the Chairman's point on ICT and data. When I was working with Macmillan Cancer Support, we were big for a charity but small compared with the health service. I always said the best £1 million we ever spent was on data because we understood the cancer patients far better when we were able to link their NHS numbers with the cancer registries and with research we had done. I agree absolutely in respect of patient identifiers.

What we can do now and in the future with data will really help the patient journey because we will understand the human and not just the condition. I missed the Chairman's final point.