Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let me get the Deputy an update on that. What I can tell her is that in the Estimates we are looking at right now, there are two pieces. There is the €58 million for e-health innovation for the new things, and then there is money in capital for the backbone, for the infrastructure and for things like unique patient identifiers and making sure the GP systems talk to the local acute systems or, indeed, to all of the acute systems. There is a total within the figures we are looking at of €255 million. I was very conscious of that figure the Deputy referenced, which was an enormous figure as part of Sláintecare and was around creating a backbone. The total we are looking at now is €255 million in annual funding for health ICT just in this budget. That is about building the backbone the Deputy is talking about. The €58 million is around innovation, chronic disease management in the community and so forth.