Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Someone mentioned the frustration with parliamentary questions and how a great deal of data are not available. Let us say I tabled a parliamentary question about the incidence of diabetes in the greater Dublin area. Presumably, the Department would not have to go through the authority to get permission to respond to that question. Can the Department continue to access whatever health data are currently in the system?