Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Mr. Derek Tierney:
I do not disagree with the Deputy. We suffer from fragmented data and data is our only way to gain insight to drive performance. That is about how we use all our available resource, as the Minister said in her opening speech. It is about how do we get best value out of the 95% of the resource that we have as well as pursuing a reform agenda. The Deputy is right. We have to enable the health service to deliver integrated care and move away from siloed care and fragmentation. My ambition, by the end of this year, is to bring a memorandum forward for a national electronic health record, EHR, roll-out. That is the game changer that the Deputy speaks about.
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