Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE (Resumed)

10:40 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

The software platform is provided by SAP. The SAP S/4HANA platform was procured in the middle of 2017. It will definitely not be out of date because part of the overall process is ongoing upgrades of the system. That is one of the reasons we would go with a first-tier company such as SAP.

As we said in the briefing, the timeline for getting to 80% of the publicly-funded healthcare system, including voluntary organisations, by quarter 1 2024 has been pushed back by Covid and the cyberattack to quarter 1 2025. The current systems integrator, as I have said, has indicated commercial issues about living within the fixed price contract. One of the options may be, as the Chairman indicated, that we will have to secure a different company. I will have to come back to the Chairman with the exact figure for the payments that have been paid to date. The contract is fixed price, as I said, but it is also staged and the company is only paid for deliverables on specific milestones.

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