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Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 17: In page 13, line 16, to delete “Digital Health Record” and substitute “Electronic Health Record”.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 18: In page 13, line 18, to delete “health services provider” and substitute “health practitioner”. Amendments Nos. 18 and 30 are technical amendments replacing the term “health services provider” with “health practitioner”. Upon review of the published Bill, it appeared there were a couple of instances...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will ask Mr. O’Connor to come in, please.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will ask Ms Doyle to speak to it and I will come in with an idea.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I agree with the Deputy. As he says, it is a really important reflection. He can see what we are trying to achieve here but we may not quite have struck the balance. I might bring in a slight tweak on Report Stage that makes it time limited or time bound because the purpose is not to restrict access to personal information but to ensure that information is given appropriately, sensitively...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: That is the purpose.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: Let me reflect on it and we will find an appropriate time. The Deputies might have particular suggestions. What we are trying to achieve here is to make sure information is delivered in a face-to-face way and not restricted from a patient in perpetuity.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: If Deputies want to think about whether that is, say, three months or what the appropriate period is, I am happy to take suggestions and we will reflect on it as well so that we collectively achieve what we are trying to do here.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I will press it with the proviso that I will bring a clarification on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 19: In page 13, line 20, to delete “a Digital Health Record” and substitute “an Electronic Health Record”.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 20: In page 13, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(6) Nothing in this section shall operate to prevent a health services provider from granting access to a patient to so much of the information sought in relation to his or her Electronic Health Record as may be granted without causing serious harm to the physical or mental health of the...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 21: In page 13, line 28, to delete “a Digital Health Record” and substitute “an Electronic Health Record”.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I totally understand the intent of the amendment. I have drafted amendments along this line for the same reasons in various contexts. Section 6 contains a provision that "The Minister shall review or cause to be reviewed ... no later than 5 years", but that is not what the Deputy is suggesting at all. I understand what he is trying to achieve and the need for it. This should not require a...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I welcome the Deputy's support. I despise having to correct the Deputy, but that Department has responsibility for public expenditure, reform, infrastructure and digitalisation, so I think the Department's enthusiasm for this project is overwhelming. The Minister, Deputy Jack Chambers, has been a really strong advocate for electronic health records. Not to tell tales about the programme...

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 22: In page 13, line 29, to delete “Digital Health Records” and substitute “Electronic Health Records”

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 23: In page 13, line 33, to delete “a Digital Health Record” and substitute “an Electronic Health Record”.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 24: In page 14, line 16, to delete “Digital Health Record” and substitute “Electronic Health Record”.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 25: In page 14, line 20, to delete “Digital Health Record” and substitute “Electronic Health Record”.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 26: In page 14, line 22, to delete “Digital Health Record” and substitute “Electronic Health Record”.

Select Committee on Health: Health Information Bill 2024: Committee Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: I move amendment No. 27: In page 14, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “(b) The Executive shall retain, for a prescribed period, a record that the patient or appropriate person acknowledged that he or she had been informed of the matters referred to in paragraph (a) prior to the restriction of access to all or part of his or her Electronic Health Record in...