Professor Colette Cowan:

I will defer to Professor Lenehan presently. Regarding local authority engagement, Ms Bridgeman and I set up public services working together and we engage regularly with the city council and local authorities and, indeed, with the Garda chief superintendent and public health medicine. We are a team that works together. That works well for us and had been up until the pandemic, when we had to split away from each other. It is about reinvigorating that. We have looked at smart cities and innovative working for elderly in the home. There is a quite an interesting document from Limerick City and County Council on how that would work. It just recently invited us to its upcoming launch of an age-friendly strategy. We will work with it on that.

On the innovation of other hospital groups and colleagues, we are always trying to find out and speak to our colleagues. We have an association – a CEO forum – where we discuss all of these matters. What the Chair is describing is Pathfinder, and I will let Professor Lenehan talk because we are about to launch that.