Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

We are operating in Connolly. Some of it is electronic and some of it is still paper. Documentation is dealt with electronically via a document management system as an interim arrangement so that we are not incurring more and more paper before we move to a single electronic healthcare record. It would not be feasible to have that procured and open in the two satellite centres before it is used in the hospital. The hospital is the major part of the implementation, with the two satellite centres added to it.

We intend to have the electronic healthcare record vendor selected in quarter 4 of this year. We will then go through an approvals process that goes all the way back to the HSE, the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure and Reform and the Government in quarter 1 of 2022. It will then take two years to design and implement, which is in line with the capital project.