Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is not acceptable. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and the Committee of Public Accounts need to be on the one page about this. Someone needs to start examining what is going on in our public health system and the failures there. Money is being frittered away. The amount of taxpayers' money made available is willingly increased each year. It is voted through in the Dáil Chamber. Where do people go to access services at the other end? This is a big issue that we could spend a month discussing. We do not have that time to spend on the issue. I am trying to highlight that because of the oversight role of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, we need to get on top of this. Health is the one Department from which we need better outcomes. I ask Mr. Moloney to give priority to that integrated financial management system. I was first told in 2020 that it was going to be the back end of 2022 before the project would be delivered. That has since shifted to 2024 and I think 2025 is the current target, although I am open to correction. The fact that it has taken eight years from the time the Department was told it needed this system to delivery of same bamboozles me. We are now talking about the process taking 11 years and that is totally unacceptable. I urge the Department to do everything possible to try to get on top of that.