Dr. Jenny Mack:

I can give the Deputy a picture from Northern Ireland in case that is helpful. I referred earlier in one of my answers to the Northern Ireland health and social care inequalities monitoring data set. It is a well-developed data set that looks at population health and different risk factors across the life course. With alcohol, for example, it would measure alcohol-specific mortality in Northern Ireland over time. We can see that trends are worsening in that area. It also looks at geographical levels of deprivation and how that relates to alcohol-specific mortality. We can see that the inequality gap in terms of the number of deaths in the most privileged areas versus the most deprived is widening. Having that data is incredibly important, not just for policymakers but for those working in services to understand what the general picture is here and then making a sort of plan for service delivery and policy development.