Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

The IFMS programme is delivering that financial system. It went live on 1 July in the eastern part of the HSE's directly run services. The aim is to have it live for the full country in HSE directly provided services by 1 July next year. That will mean it will cover approximately 80% of the total health Vote by 1 July next year. We will then need to move on to the larger voluntary organisations to pick up the balance of the final 20%. It is a huge transformation programme and, as the Deputy stated, it has been a long time coming. We are delighted it has been funded in recent years, in particular with the support of the Department. They will be our two next big go-lives - 1 April and 1 July - by when we will have all of the HSE's directly run services. It is both financial management and a procurement system. The procurement piece gives us an opportunity to assist with the productivity discussion around price and volume analysis.