Mr. Richard Corbridge:

It is a shocking to think about this. As the Chairman rightly pointed out, we probably all have a very powerful pocket computer today, and the HSE has not had the funding to implement this type of digital fabric into the healthcare system. In April, we set ourselves a target to connect these 47,000 people to digital solutions. This means giving them the ability to log onto a computer that will be in their care setting. It gives them the ability to have an e-mail account and solutions they can start to use to do this. What is perhaps even more worrying are the 10,000 people in primary and community care who have no devices and our programme to roll out these is well under way. In 2015, Ireland was the largest EU population to roll out new Microsoft solutions into what we deliver and we followed up on this commitment this year.