Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

We are so mindful of the vital importance of data security and confidentiality. There absolutely will not be generalised access to our individually identifiable healthcare records. Access to records would not even be campus-wide in any hospital. The health and social care professional as an individual would have to have a direct, immediate and legitimate interest in your care and treatment. That will be managed very carefully.

On roll-out, we have learned a lot of lessons from other countries. Estonia has a facility where its citizens can access a lot of their government information. They can access health records directly online. On the side of the screen, there is an audit so there is a record of all other people who have accessed the record. Then there is a facility for the person to report that they are concerned about it. They might see it was their pharmacist, which is okay, and their doctor and surgeon which they knew about and so on. We will build in that auditing and transparency. We will do everything we need to do to ensure confidence and the security of the data.