Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)

I think I am the longest serving member on the committee. I am raising the same questions today as I did ten or 12 years ago, relating to the computerisation of the health service. We are now behind every other country in Europe. In what I am seeing in the figures for 2025, I am not impressed that we are making any real progress. For instance, I just received a complaint stating that the primary care reimbursement service, PCRS, will not accept digitised signatures, which means the patient has to be brought in and has to sign the document again. That will slow up the whole process and add to the workload of staff. Will that issue be looked at?

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