Ms Claire Hanna:

My sincere apologies, folks, as I am just that the airport, and I am literally boarding a flight at the last call. I have been listening in and it has been a very informative presentation. As Senator Currie has said, we are all learning from everything that our witnesses have presented to us. It is very clear that health has been one of the most successful components of the North-South co-operation and will continue to be. It is one of the very logical things to do on an all-island basis.

I want to focus briefly on the fact that a cancer strategy for Northern Ireland is overdue and is a New Decade, New Approach deal commitment. I wondered what engagement our witnesses had in potentially ensuring that their project become a key component of that or is built in to the development of that strategy.

Additionally, focusing on the North as well, we have talked about biotechnology clusters and I know that that is something that Queen’s University Belfast is obviously involved in. Have our witnesses had much engagement with, for example, Invest Northern Ireland, Invest NI, in creating the conditions for that? Apologies as I will turn my camera off now but I am still listening, I greatly appreciate the presentation and I thank the committee.