Mr. Pádraig Dalton:

We have started the work on the SAVI survey. We expect to be in the field next year with a pilot. International best practice is to conduct a pilot, so our intention is to be in the field with a pilot in the summer months of 2020, ideally. Our hope then is to be in field with the live survey in the summer of 2021. We do not want to undertake a survey of this nature in the dark winter months. That is also the guidance internationally. We are now engaging with a broad range of users. Our staff were in the UK last week meeting expects including Professor Liz Kelly and Professor Sylvia Walton. We are trying to set up a meeting with Professor Hannah McGee to learn from the experience of the first SAVI report back in 2002.

We also had engagement with the broader range of stakeholders to outline what we are planning to do, and we will be setting up a stakeholder group to start that engagement process towards the design of the questionnaire, the design of the samples and so on. The international research work is under way, and we will moving throughout this year into the other phases of the project.