Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. On reading Mr. Thompson's opening statement and listening to his presentation, with all due respect to himself and Mr Redmond as I do not know where the blame lies, I despair when I hear the tone of the opening statement. Mr Thompson is talking about the theoretical benefits of e-health and nobody will argue with any of them for a moment. Why are we talking on a theoretical level and about things happening in the future when the e-health programme was in development in 2013 and was announced in 2015?

The reality is that Mr. Thompson could have given the same opening statement any year for the past ten years.