Mr. Barry Lowry:

The Department of Health opened the standard operation procedure, SOP, application process. It is a statement of operating procedures. The Department of Health needs a reassurance that people who are offering tests are valid organisations and not somebody trying to set up in his or her garage with a laptop and an illegal testing set. It instructs OGCIO that an organisation can be given access to our API. We then take the organisation through the process to make sure that it understands how to use it properly. That process has some basic security in it because people who would like to attack State infrastructure would be interested in this process, so we needed a certain degree of security and we take organisations through how that security works.