Dr. Colm O'Reardon:

I thank the Deputy. We share the Deputy's frustration about that issue. It is an important piece of work. The value for money group was set up, I think, in March 2018. It is an interdepartmental arrangement and ran into serious difficulties in getting data. The original plan was to go to the NTPF and use its data sources and that ran into data protection issues, legal discussions, etc. Subsequently, there were discussions with Nursing Homes Ireland and eventually an agreement was reached to access data via that group. Things had been paused because of the scale of the data problems but it got back up and running in March, and then immediately Covid-19 struck.