Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

No. We are swimming in information, but it is just not connected enough. We need some standardised summary care records. In other systems we are looking at in the context of developing regional health areas, such as Canada and New Zealand, even in paper the agreement of a standard cover piece of paper with core information about each patient at each hand-off between primary, acute and community care and those types of things can be very important building blocks for the electronic summary care records to which we all aspire. The legislation will be very supportive of the type of information sharing that we recognise is imperative.