Professor M. John Kennedy:

We have the national ethics committee which is functioning effectively.

The HPRA has to be involved. You have to submit a data protection impact assessment on every clinical trial. Each section 38 hospital has its own data protection officer. Because it is one legal entity, the HSE has one data protection officer with, I believe, four part-time sub-officers who have multiple other commitments as well. I do not know that there is huge training in clinical trials. There is an enormous burden of regulatory environment with regard to getting a trial out the door so it can become available to our patients that is multistep, often with conflicting agendas and produces huge delays in getting clinical trials-----