Ms Jennifer Banim:

It will not take long. They are very important statistics and it is relatively new for the CSO to be publishing them in the format they are currently going out in, with additional detail. It is about what is spent on health, who is spending it and where it is being spent. They are a very valuable set of tables for health policymakers and decision-makers in that space. As Mr. Dalton said, they are produced from a blend of data, primarily data from the HSE.

We also do some collection from private health providers and we use other administrative data for estimating out-of-pocket expenditure on health. We are trying to really show the broad expenditure on health. Timeliness is an issue. We have worked on it and we have tried to improve it. We have brought it back and it is a focus for improving that timeliness even more so.