Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

In fairness to colleagues in other Departments, the concern was the level of risk in a national electronic health record, EHR, project. By breaking it up, we reduce the risk of the project somewhat. That does not help the rest of the country to access EHRs, though. The Deputy can take it that we have ongoing engagements with the Departments of Health and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform regarding how to shrink the timelines and reduce as much as possible the dependency, if any, on the time the children's hospital has to have its system in place before we can move on to the other stages.