Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our witnesses and thank them for their time. It is a very engaging conversation. I have two questions to follow up on. From reading the literature, I know the witnesses were involved in building new tools to assist delivery of service planning such as outcomes for children data and the information hub. Could they provide the committee with some information on these two initiatives? Also, Mr. Chance spoke about the strategic use of national lottery funding to front-load investment in preventative services. Could we have some additional information on this? In regard to the suite of services that must be delivered through a combination of both statutory and NGO providers, what is their experience to date, both through practice and through international evidence, that provides reliable data to ensure that we have supports around early years care and educational services around health education and also spanning family supports? I would be interested to hear about evidence on the ground in the provision of this suite of services.