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

I want to be able to offer a timeline because that has come up in previous sessions, and what we heard was that the business case was rejected in 2018 by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The HSE has not redone the business case. It is linked to the children's hospital. By the timeline we worked out with the HSE in the room at that Committee of Public Accounts session, I believe we said that it would be ambitious to have e-health records rolled out by 2026 and that it would more likely be 2027. I have other questions but I just want to follow up on what Deputy O'Connor has raised because it is really important. Our e-health records system does not have a working business case and has not gone to any procurement. It will be a continuing risk and the State Claims Agency is in the business of assessing risk. Am I given to understand from the witnesses responses to Deputy O'Connor that they do not identify the lack of patient e-health records until maybe 2028? The interim head of the HSE said 2027 or 2028 to me. The witnesses do not identify that as an ongoing significant risk.