Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Damien McCallion:

There is no question that having a manual system is not good in terms of getting easy access to information. Any area should be able to pull those numbers together. We can revert to the Deputy on it, but I suspect the issue is the capacity and resources to trawl through all the files to try to collate the information. Deputy Dillon made a point about IT. In terms of CAMHS - the area of children's disability is similar - we need to develop systems and support those services. We are looking to do that. We have asked IT services to prioritise some interim solutions. A wider solution is being developed for community services. Deputy Hourigan referred earlier to electronic health records. We want to build a system for the community as well to manage that.