Mr. Derek Tierney:

I take the Deputy’s first question. The scenario he is presenting is a child or patient in CHI receiving care, and after reaching the age of 18, he or she needs to receive acute care in St. James's Hospital. for example. I will answer that in two ways. The purpose of this Bill is to ensure that the patient's data is accessible and follows him or her on his or her care journey. We are here today to make sure we at least establish a legal underpinning, obligation and duty to share, to allow us live through that duty of care. At a practical, technical level what I would say is that the national shared care record in the first instance allows both the patient and the caregiver in St. James's to have access to a minimum level of information from the CHI system to understand what the patient need is and what care has been received to date.