Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I did not really even mean to ask those questions. I had a number of other questions I wanted to ask.

Obviously, the history of the health boards goes back to the mid-19th century. Change has been incremental. There still appears to be a great deal of fragmentation in the HSE. It can be quite difficult to find services or even figure out funding. I recently put a question to every Department about the hiring of private investigators - it does not matter that that was the subject. It is a good way of testing to see how effective it is. The one organisation that has been most difficult to get responses back from has been the HSE. I first tabled the question in April. Following email exchanges, we narrowed down the question. We were told there were seven different ledgers. We narrowed it down again and now, in mid-June, we have gone back with another question. That is my experience of how hard it is to find information. There is certainly a dysfunction in being able to retrieve information, including financial information, because this related to a payment. I know it is necessary to invest in administrative systems in order to save time, etc. Using this as an example, what needs to change to pull that together? What is happening? What is the investment?