In respect of the recommendations, they will be implemented by the Government. The Secretary General of the Department of Health is clear they will be implemented by the Government and accepts the decision of the Government to accept all the recommendations of the report.

The report focused very much on doing this is in a far more effective and better way and to learn lessons from it. That was the purpose of the report itself. There is an obligation on everybody now to get down to it and make sure proper procedures are in place into the future. As someone with a lot of experience in research funding, I think we have come a long way in research. Clearly, peer-reviewed, international-based research is the key way to do it. Again, my understanding is that was to be pursued. That is, to me very clearly, the way all research funding has to be deliberated on. It has to be by peer review.

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