Dr. Amir Niazi:

I thank the Deputy. The HSE definitely needs to do a lot of hard work to make progress in this area. Some of that is under way. Each of the clinical programmes I mentioned has its own unique needs as to how we collect the data for them. I liaised with all the national leads to see what their needs were. The self-harm programme, which works with the National Office of Suicide Prevention, had its own needs as did the perinatal programme working on women's health. We tried to put all of those needs together and to look for a system that could collect those data. Money was even allocated for us to go out and buy the software to develop our own data system and then when the cyberattack happened, we were told that the HSE was currently using approximately 2,000 different types of software in different parts of the country on different programmes. Everything was halted. We were told that the skeleton system, the integrated community case management system, ICCMS, which will use the unique identifier number, was being developed and when that system was in place, the 2,000 different types of software would have to be looked at as regards speaking to the main skeleton. Whichever software works with the main system would be the one they take on.