Dr. Niall Muldoon:

Yes. Any business nowadays is looking that way and considering how all of the units help each other, what can be learned from unit A to unit B, and how one can cross-fertilise information so that we can all do a better job. The rationale for the data gathering is that every healthcare professional feeds into it and then the Government, as a whole, understands that. At the moment the data is not gathered. In the Molly case, we asked how many children with severe and profound disabilities are in foster care. Three years later, the HSE still would not agree how many there were after Tusla had said there were over 450. The HSE will not agree because if it does, it will have to deal with the issue. It is the gathering and naming of data that allows one to make decisions and if the HSE does not gather data, it can avoid making decisions.