Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Electronic Health Records: Discussion
Mr. Michael Redmond:
I can tell the Deputy why we are behind. During 2020 and 2021, most of our efforts were diverted from what was our e-health plan for those two years, first, by the pandemic, which obviously stretched into 2021 and we know what happened in 2021 as well. Both of those years substantially knocked us off course. We delivered many other good and innovative digital solutions that have proven to be pathfinders for us in terms of test and trace and vaccination systems but nevertheless they were not on the start-of-year plan that year for obvious reasons. The things we were going to do that year were suspended for a while. We are back on track and in discussions with the Department even as late as last week. We are back on track to drawn down that money fully before the time limit expires.
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