Mr. Derek Tierney:

The Chair is referring to MedLIS, which is a national laboratory programme to digitise laboratory services. It covers a range of specialties within a lab environment. It was awarded to Oracle back in 2015 and the contract was subject to a public procurement at the time. It was reviewed in 2022 before it was extended. We had to contend with a pandemic and a cyberattack between then. We deployed MedLIS successfully in Beaumont on 17 August 2024.

We are aware there is one remaining module to go live, which is histopathology, and the national and Beaumont teams are working with that speciality. We are targeting a go-live by the end of October this year. We have an ambition to then widen that nationally between now and 2028 but we will be widening it in Dublin and north east in three waves with a full roll-out schedule developed for that.