Mr. Eoghan Duffy:

On health and cancer care, in the unit directly, Professor Deirdre Heenan did a piece of work for us at an early stage to scope out areas of potential in the healthcare sector that identify cancer. Separately, under the North-South research programme, the All-Island Cancer Research Institute has got substantial funding to do its work on clinical questions around cancer care and making links there. I am sure that will then feed into the thinking the two health Departments and health systems are doing on how that could actually be done. There is much potential there. There is US-Ireland-Northern Ireland co-operation on cancer research as well. There is a lot there, but there is undoubtedly more to do to bring it from the research into the service delivery area.

On renewables, two of the Departments, namely, the Department of Transport on our side and the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland, are looking at green hydrogen transport for heavy duty vehicles and how that could be integrated. A piece of scoping research was done on the regulatory environment and safety frameworks and they are now looking at feasibility work for a pilot programme. There is very strong interest from the two Departments on that. Obviously, it connects in with wider climate action activities for both administrations and, indeed, at a UK level. It has the potential to bring different climate action funding streams, which is something the shared island unit is hopeful to see on hydrogen. That is obviously one piece of a much bigger jigsaw.