Dr. Sara Burke:

It has had none specifically, but each of us is funded by the Health Research Board, HRB, which is Irish public money. My research, in particular, is funded on the basis of a partnership. The partnership originally included the Sláintecare programme implementation office, and includes the Department of Health and the HSE, which puts in small pots of money to supplement the much larger funding from the HRB and the Higher Education Authority, HEA. We do engage with the Department and the HSE. We believe the work should be co-produced and we should be feeding the evidence into the system. We have been invited to departmental policy seminars and have presented on our research. We recently started a similar series with the HSE. We find there is an openness to engagement but it is us pushing that engagement because we have HRB funding that is contingent on us making an impact on the system and also that we believe-----