Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Select Committee on Health

Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage

2:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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The last time we had a debate on this issue, it was in respect of the heads of Bill. Some of the same officials are involved again today. We had very lengthy discussions on the lack of progress in this area. Two years have passed. The question is, what progress has been made since? There was a lengthy discussion at that time on the different types of records involved. I refer to summary records, shared care records and then electronic health records. My understanding is that we are still at the point of working towards summary care records. Is that the case, and how far have we progressed in that regard?