Ms Siobhan Gaynor:

If you look at the winds of change in healthcare and if you look at the fact that, as Professor Smith referenced, more and more new therapies are becoming available every year, that trajectory will not change. We understand the population across the island of Ireland and we understand it is an ageing population. We understand that the incidence of cancer is increasing. All of this will require a very different health system. That is actually a point at which we could address an all-island system. There is a shared need across Ireland and other countries to think differently about how we do healthcare. That is very clear when you look at the changes. It is also very clear that, for a variety of reasons, we are falling behind in implementing new technologies across the island. For me, a brilliant first start would be to think about what the healthcare system would look like, full stop, in ten years' time. Forget about the North or the South. What is the optimum healthcare system? Would that not be a great way to bring everyone together?