David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is called different things but let us not confuse things even more. At the moment, people attending Beaumont hospital will have their own medical number. If they then go in to St. James's Hospital for a different operation, they generate a different number. That is what happens currently. The witnesses said that everybody has been assigned a unique identifier so we all have one. Is that now working? For example, is it still the case that someone could go in to two or three hospitals right now and the hospitals will generate a different medical number or are hospitals starting to use those numbers that everybody has been assigned? What is happening currently?