Mr. Martin Quigley:

I will certainly do that. The Deputy has raised the sharing of information across Departments and agencies. One of the challenges we have observed is that even when those data silos are broken down, different funders, agencies and Departments may use different definitions around what is meant. Our scoping exercise examined the issue. Let us consider a straightforward metric, such as "organisation type". In one funding stream, one of the organisation types might be "registered charity that is not for profit". Under another funding stream, the equivalent might be "charity, local development company, social enterprise". Another funding stream might separately designate public bodies, statutory bodies and private companies. Adding those together is not a data problem but a data definition problem. There is a definitional issue. We can share the scoping exercise with the committee if it has not been shared previously. While there would be an IT project involved in that development component, it would need to be nestled within an interagency and cross-departmental change management project to align those definitions and requirements because otherwise, even adding the data together is a matter of tallying apples and oranges.