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 Pádraig RicePádraig Rice (Cork South-Central, Social Democrats)

When the Minister of State comes back to us, she might give the committee a breakdown of the healthy Ireland initiative, the €16 million allocated there and how much of that is for sexual health. We would appreciate that as well.

I have one final issue, if I have time. On ICT projects and procurement, I have a specific example. For the medical laboratory information system used for tracking and logging patients' bloods and tests, the HSE signed a €33 million contract in 2015 with a company called Oracle. In 2022, a €17.9 million contract extension was signed despite the fact the company had failed to deliver the system to the 40 public labs. To date, the system has only been rolled out in one lab in Beaumont. Is this the laboratory diagnostic solution referred to on page 8 of the Department's briefing note?

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