Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Select Committee on Health

Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage

2:00 am

Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

I will start and I might bring Ms Doyle in too. The legislation is very determined to ensure that the citizen has full comprehensive rights to access their own information. We are just creating a bit of latitude in the Bill. For instance, if a diagnostic test or a scan for a cancer came through, the health practitioner might wish, for very good reasons, to have a direct personal conversation with their patient in advance of the information being immediately uploaded to their record. That is an instance where it would be appropriate to personalise the information and engage appropriately with the patient. Those are the circumstances. They would be very limited circumstances in which -----

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