Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive
2:00 am
Mr. Damien McCallion:
One aspect of it is the area of cyber in terms of implementation of systems like SAP. We talked about IBM and so on. These are areas where very clear deliverables are applied to contracts. Someone like PFH supplies products as well. It is a re-seller for certain things in terms of support services. We will always need a cadre within the digital space. In some ways, the more you invest, the more you need. We want our staff to focus on being stronger on the implementation and dealing with all of the factors around that because they know the health system. That is where we are focusing our own HSE staff. We will always have a range of partners in the digital area, but there are other areas, as the Deputy mentioned. As the CEO said, there has been a drive to push general consultancy down, but we are still investing in digital because we want to make sure we get pace into investment in the sort of areas we are talking about.
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