Grigg Nicola; Verrall AyeshaNICOLA GRIGG (National—Selwyn): Thank you Madam Chair. Can I just also acknowledge the Minister in charge of this amendment bill. As both a woman and a doctor it's certainly heartening for those of us who are women that you are leading this. I just wanted to flesh out a little bit around the robustness of the platform referred to in subsection (5). Recent examples—particularly at Waikato DHB—of protected information and cyber and privacy breaches can cause concern within the public. So I just want the Minister please to be able to confirm that the IT component that will deal with this potential volume of electronic requests is in place and has been tested. The second part to my question is: when will this actually be rolled out? Thirdly can you confirm that it has no relationship or dependency on the coronavirus vaccine IT platform with relation to problems in the past regarding the bowel-screening programme roll-out? Just finally can the Minister reassure New Zealand women as I referred to in my preamble that the private data is going to be safe in light of those recent cyber-attacks and breaches and what watchdog—for want of a better word—might be overseeing that? Hon Dr AYESHA VERRALL (Associate Minister of Health): Thank you Madam Chair. Thank you to the member for such important questions. The screening programme—in a sense we're going to set up an IT system that is equivalent to IT systems that are in use within DHBs for example or are within public health organisations and yes there are some national ones as well. This would be one of those national ones. So it is not at all unique that we are having a register that is an electronic register accessed nationally by healthcare providers—that's not unique. What is unique about the cervical-screening programme is how specific its legislation is and that's how we're in this positon. In terms of the specific question about the robustness of the security protections there look that's a concern I totally share. The funding that was announced in Budget 2021 includes funding for a business case where we'll develop a more detailed proposal on the particular shape of that IT platform and indeed other specifications of the privacy protections and security will be scrutinised heavily at that time. There's no commitment to a particular platform at this stage. The time line for implementation is two years from now so it will be the business case and then developing the implementation plan. None the less work is under way. We have this legislation in progress to enable those changes and also the ministry has been developing its clinical guidelines on how the HPV test will be used. So it is not as if we have been standing still. I'm interested to understand more of the member's concerns about the bowel-screening programme. That is one particular platform that has been used for a number of different public health platforms and it does appear to be performing well because the same IT system that underpins the bowel-screening programme is the basis of our contact-tracing IT system and I think that it's also been repurposed for one other public health programme. Certainly we've had now a series of IT builds within the ministry. They seem to have progressed quickly and the ones that I've seen developed in my brief time here have been to a high standard. So I'd be interested to understand more of what concerns are particularly about the bowel-screening one and I'd also just note that there is a business case to come with no commitment to a particular platform yet.