Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

That is just not going to be acceptable and that is why we are investing in digital. That is why we are also trying to harmonise what we are doing through financial management systems so that we can see what is happening and how money is being used right across the health system. A total of 80% of the system is on the integrated financial management system, IFMS, now and it is the voluntary hospitals that need to come on board. That represents €5 billion worth of funding.

We absolutely have to have the same digital system. It is not acceptable, for example, in the context of money being spent. For example, I was in Mayo University Hospital and there are different diagnostic systems between Galway and Mayo, in the same region. How that has ever been enabled to happen is beyond me. That is not okay. That is why we have to have the same systems throughout. We are a small country with a small integrated health system. People move between regions. People move between public and private. It has to be integrated.