Mr. Derek Tierney:

I will tell the Deputy where we would like to get to. We would like to get down to one system nationally, which is that relating to our enterprise electronic health record. We have developed a business case. We are engaging with our colleagues in the Department of public expenditure and reform for support for investment to start the programme in that regard. The matter is under active consideration.

We have thousands of discrete independent systems throughout the health service. The challenge is to connect them. The way to do that is to start replacing them over time with a shared care record that is longitudinal and that takes information out of those hundreds of systems to provide a unified view and, in time, replace this with an enterprise electronic health record. The goal is to get down to one system. In fairness to the authorities in Denmark, they have been at this for 30 years. We have only really started.