Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----recommended 380 beds. We now have 473. Across the sea, there was a report on the use of technology in the NHS. The witness will find nobody else in here who is a bigger fan of e-health than me. I say this consistently. It was one of the things I concentrated on with regard to Sláintecare. It is to do with my background in technology. There were decreases in clinical attendance as a result in the advances in technology, particularly with regard to children. Ms Hardiman will have seen the report as it was released a couple of weeks ago. Surely that will have an impact after we do the figures relating to bed usage, which I asked about in the last round of questions. I am concerned about the use of technology, the figures I asked about earlier and the escalation. How do we know all that is accurate? How do we know we have made the specifications correctly?