Mr. Peter Lennon:

The legislation provides that this will be the responsibility of the NHIA. We are very much aware that Dr. Avril Kennan appeared before the committee on 25 January and made a very impassioned and positive plea for information to be available for health research, with which we very much agree. We also did the health research regulations in 2018. The purpose of Part 3 is definitely to ensure health information is available for health research purposes. It will be on an anonymised or pseudonymised basis, which seems appropriate. It will not rule out the possibility of health researchers also being able to get identifiable information, with the consent of the individuals concerned.