Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

That is the ultimate goal and what we are trying to get to. This is going to be a staged process over time. As we said, we started with the maternity hospitals, the children's hospital and the national rehabilitation hospital have this measure. This is about making this the complete system for all healthcare interactions. The whole purpose is to get to the point where a person’s care is available to whichever provider he or she turns up to, whether in a scheduled way such as transitioning from paediatric to adult services or in a more organic way, such as when a person has had a trauma or an accident and turns up at a different hospital. The same record is individualised or personalised to that person and should be available. That is going to take us some time, not only to integrate the different systems between acute, paediatric, adult and community, but on a regional basis and in terms of how we stage that securely, effectively and reasonably throughout not only the different elements of the healthcare system, but the regions of it, along how we stage this. What the Deputy is describing is our goal.