Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is the point I am making. People who would otherwise present at a local injuries unit with an injury from sport practice, etc., have to go to UHL. When I asked the chief clinical officer of UHL whether there was a case to be made, not perhaps for 24-hour care but for extending it to 10 p.m. rather than 8 p.m., he accepted that there was a case. I urge the HSE to move in that direction. We do not want people presenting at an emergency department that is already under pressure if their injury is such that they could be safely treated elsewhere.

Digitisation is not why the Minister came here but it was part of the motion we brought forward. It would be particularly helpful in the mid-west because we could move people more easily from UHL to Ennis, Nenagh or St. John's or vice versa if we had this digitisation of records, etc., rather than a paper-based system. Is this moving at all?