Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I was delighted that we are being pushed to the limit of what we can do to roll this out as fast as possible and that is no reflection on anyone who has been involved in it. The reality is that the HSE has had a reasonable expectation and effort to introduce IFMS since 2016. It is only this year and last year we have actually seen it rolled out in the HSE. That is far too long. It is a long investment, there are reasons for it such as Covid-19, a breakdown with suppliers and all those kinds of wonderful things. However, as I said earlier, Ireland is a very small place. We have too many individual health governance systems and that is a decision for the Government for the future. However many governance systems we have in independent organisations, the one thing we cannot have is different financial control or management systems. I am delighted and we are pushing on.