Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I agree that the provision in respect of class action capacity should be transposed fully so that individuals are not undermined. Deputy Wallace mentioned State agencies. The Bill as drafted provides for such bodies to have less accountability than private organisations.

I would like to make a point about future health care technologies and data management. Many US states are trying to provide red-flag markers and prophylactic capacity with health care technology. Obviously, there is a need for significant and comprehensive data management and retention. I assume Ireland will move towards a health care management system that manages its health care population with better skills and has better outcomes for individuals. How will that fit into this? How will the State manage future health care data-processing systems that look at managing the population in a way that uses data control in primary care and in the hospital system? At the moment, we have a haphazard kind of mixed data-processing system, depending on where one goes. It is all spread differently across the health care system.

As we move to a more centralised data processing system, as has happened in the US where there is a red flag capacity, how do we manage that and its benefits with the potential for individual data breaches? How does this Bill fit into that in the context of health care?