Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Long-term Planning in the Health Services: Discussion
2:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
We will see whether we get the detail.
I want to move on to the integrated financial management system, IFMS, because that is important. It is something I have been calling for and something I support. I have seen recently that there may be pushback from the voluntary hospitals. I have said on the record on several occasions that there should not be. I do not want to see a situation where this becomes a slow bicycle race with the voluntary hospitals. What I want to see – and I believe this is mandatory in the first instance anyway – is all of the voluntary hospitals playing ball and using the system, because we need it and we need the data from it. Is there a concern in relation to the implementation of the system with the voluntary hospitals?
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