Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 October 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and 2014 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38: Health
Chapter 13: Irish Blood Transfusion Service Pension Funding

10:00 am

Mr. Jim Breslin:

The first stage will be when we go to procurement and advertise in the market to bring in technology suppliers and implementation providers. The second answer is that we will not try to implement that in every part of the HSE all in one go. We will undertake a phased implementation throughout the HSE. The timeline I have referenced is to the end of the process. In advance of that, proven technologies are available to us which can suck the information from existing systems and make it more accessible, including data warehousing and use of technology in that area. We are doing it in two stages. The first is to get to an endpoint with one financial system throughout the health service, that is, the same proprietary financial system everywhere. That is the real endpoint. However, in advance of that, as we develop our instances of implementation, we will draw that information into a central source and have better and more reliable information.

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