Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

As Mr. Gloster set out, the IFMS will be rolled out through agreements within the service-level arrangements but the Health Information Bill, which is the legal basis for the digitisation of healthcare, provides the HSE with very clear authority and establishes a clear duty to share information for the purpose of generating summary care records, and these are set out in the Bill.

Part 4 of the Bill deals with the HSE's very clear authority to request and receive information necessary for performance oversight and service planning. That Part 4 provides a very clear basis in law for the HSE to receive the detail it seeks from statutory hospitals and all section 38 and section 39 organisations.