Mr. Richard Corbridge:

Moving to the savings in individual hospitals, where we take a national solution, such as the health cloud first solution, which will release money that is spent locally. This means that money can then be spent in those local hospitals and on mental health and community organisations. Where we have deployed solutions such as the electronic referral into GP practices, that saves money in such practices. However, that money is not pulled back to the centre. It is money that is released in the GP practice to be spent differently on particular efficiencies. The same goes for simple solutions, such as mobile phone bills. There is a single mobile bill solution for the HSE that has saved millions of euro. However, those savings are not re-spent in the area of technology. It is important to point out that they are re-spent across the HSE.