Ms Suzanne Costello:

The Departments of Health would obviously be arbiters of that. They are very engaged in this type of work. They are very supportive, and we are delighted with that. How we would normally approach this - I would take my colleague Ms Ward's advice on this as well - is there would be room for a scoping paper on the potential for public health on a North-South basis in a post-pandemic, post-Brexit and post-Good Friday-Belfast Agreement environment. We are many years on now. We live in a different world. There would be room for a scoping paper, or it may be something that the shared island unit could look at in terms of the many symposia it holds. It could be an area or identified strand. There are many agencies like us, which, from working with colleagues I know, would also welcome looking at what a new landscape would look like.

That is definitely something which could be progressed, perhaps under the auspices of the shared island unit. That seems like the obvious place for it. However, I would certainly feel that the Department of Health, from our side, would be supportive.