Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I want to go back to the timeline. According to the HSE's words at last week's meeting, we are talking about substantial completion some time next year and then maybe six to eight months if we are being a little bit conservative. That brings us into 2025 for commissioning to be largely complete and the hospital to open sometime around then. We are adding on another three to four months for all the computers to turn on and talk to each other. Now we are in mid-2025 or the third quarter. The reason I asked about the EIB loan is that when that was announced in 2018, there was an announcement from the Minister that there would be a huge roll-out nationwide of the digital health record. The witnesses probably watched the meeting last week and meetings of the Committee on Health in previous weeks. The roll-out nationally of digital health records has been linked to the national children's hospital. The Department of Health has not revised the business plan for digital health records. It is one of the key recommendations of Sláintecare that those kinds of records be rolled out. The then Department of Public Expenditure and Reform rejected the digital health records business case in 2018 on the basis that we needed the children's hospital. Can somebody explain where we are with all of that?