Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

In the recent past, my family has been very glad to have access to consultants out of hours. I will touch on that. My father is 80 years of age. He still rides vintage motorcycles around the place, which is great for our collective family blood pressure. He gave us a bit of a scare recently. He came off the bike. We were in hospital with him. This goes back to Deputy Cannon's point about the electronic records. It is one of the things that strikes me as low-hanging fruit. My father was in hospital about to undergo a procedure and the question that arose related to the medication is he on. He was not in a position to answer. I had to drive out to the family home, which, thankfully, is not far from University Hospital Waterford, UHW, rummage around until I found the relevant box - I had to hope that the necessary prescriptions and all the rest were inside - and bring it back in. In our case, somebody was around who could do that. Many people who present at a hospital are not in a position to outline the medication they are on. As stated, this is low-hanging fruit. Are we making any progress in respect of that matter?