Ms Eilísh Hardiman:

That is part of our integration. Again, we acknowledge that commencement was a big milestone for us in our services because it means we are moving to single functions of ICT. We have identified within the existing hospitals that there are four fundamental basic IT systems. We need to become a single incidence of that ICT system across all of our sites with the patient administration system being the biggest and most important. It went live in April after 28 million patient records from Crumlin and Temple Street - all of our history - were transferred to the new system. That was a phenomenally successful project that took a lot of time and effort without any impact on services; it was a very successful transition with only a handful or .001% of the records having to be amended or adjusted.

Next, we are moving to have a single system in our emergency departments. That is really important because people go to different emergency departments. Particularly from a child protection perspective, having the same information on the one system, across our emergency departments, is a key quality and safety operational requirement for us in children's healthcare. We are also looking at electronic documentation management and that means scanning documents. We are on a digital journey over the next four years to have a digital health system. We are looking at and have identified the existing systems that need to become single incidences, and have a planned approach to do so. We want to implement them in Connolly Hospital so that its staff can see the records and check whether a child has been to one of the other hospitals. We are also working on the electronic healthcare record, which is the new system that will be put into the hospital.