Dr. Paul Kavanagh:

What that speaks to is one of the recommendations we have come here with, which is on establishing an all-island public health dataset so that we can track, research and evaluate those differences. When the institute was founded, one of the landmark reports it published was on inequalities in mortality and the differences in mortality across the island of Ireland. It looked at those differences in terms of North-South but also across population groups and socioeconomic groups. There is a real opportunity, in establishing a public health dataset, to build an evidence base to understand the trajectory, trends and differences in health across the island so as to inform improved approaches to public health policy.