Mr. Damien McCallion:

It is a really good question. We went through our approval process with our own board. We went through all of those risks and challenges. The Department commissioned what is called an external assurance process. The straight answer is we are building that competency. We have just hired someone to start this week. We have done this in other jurisdictions because, again, the scale of this will be greater than what we have done previously. I mentioned maternity, where the electronic health record has been really successful. It is a good case study with good benefits in terms of clinical, nursing and administrative time, but also from a safety perspective, with reduced medication errors on a smaller scale. We will build up that competence.

Mr. Gloster mentioned the programme board. It will be jointly chaired by the CEO and the Secretary General and will report to the Minister and our own board. We have a committee that looks at that. We are then building up competence within the team. We have appointed a strategic partner with expertise in this as well.

We want to make sure early on that we get this set up as strongly as possible for success, but it will be an ongoing risk we have to manage as we go through it.