Ms Fiona Larthwell:

The HSE would be able to pull some of it together manually. Obviously, we would not have any information on the privately commissioned services. One service provider might be providing services through the HSE to older people and to people with a disability, and it might be providing privately commissioned services as well. We do not have a global view on that.

The Bill's provisions on information gathering will allow us to consider such issues and make policy based on what we are seeing.