Mr. Richard Corbridge:

Deputy O'Reilly mentioned figures and asked what additional money we would need. The electronic health record business case considers a capital investment of around €107 million in year one. That is not an insignificant additional amount of capital but I would refer to my earlier comment about revenue and about the ability to have the right number of people employed by the health system to implement this. We need to be careful not to rely on temporary staff, contractors and consultancy teams and to make sure that we lodge the intelligence and capability to deliver this in the Irish health care system and not be reliant on temporary resources.