Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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I might stick to that topic for a moment in order to get some clarity. Is it that the academics have some sense that the data exists but not in a disaggregated version that would be available to researchers or NGOs - in other words, the data exists but it is just not made available - or is it that we are not collecting it? The reason I ask is because this comes up at the Joint Committee on Health all the time. There is a big difference between having the data and not making it available, and simply not collecting the data. Does Professor Flynn have a sense of whether the data is being collected and is simply not available or it is not being collected at all?