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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: It has been procured.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: When Ms McCaffrey says it is almost complete, does she mean that that ICT has been rolled out in every location?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: What kind of staff training has been required to roll that out? I am not referring to the medical staff. I presume for this to work well, ordinary staff will need to input every so often.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Nor am I. I am just trying to get a sense of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I am a member of the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Health. The ICT system for e-health records is nowhere close to being complete. When somebody comes into the Prison Service first, how much of a challenge is it to get them up to speed on the data? They might not have complete medical records. In this room we have been talking about passing information to other...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I can guarantee that the Prison Service is at a more advanced stage. It certainly sounds like it is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Can I infer from what Ms Campbell is describing that if somebody has been in the prison system previously and they come in again, they are actually in a better situation in terms of medical information than somebody who, for example, has a chronic illness and who never before has been in the prison system?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Just to be clear, if the whole thing was on a global system, they could give consent at the touch of a button. At the moment, however, different systems operate in different health facilities across the country. Therefore, you could be ringing somebody on the phone, or you could be sending a hard-copy letter.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: God.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: It sounds as though the Irish Prison Service properly inputs and can search the data. Then, however, they are dealing with records from the HSE that are PDF scans.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: That must massively impact the Irish Prison Service's ability to search those records and make sure they are-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: It is unlikely. It does sound like the Irish Prison Service is doing a bit of the homework for the HSE to create full files for people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Can I ask - I know this might not be possible because people leave the system - do they have access to their health file afterwards?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: How does the Irish Prison Service make that happen? That is incredible.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Exactly. The division of e-care in the long term is that there would be an app on your phone with all your records and you could go to any doctor's office or anybody. I apologise because I know I have taken up a huge amount of time, but I just have one final question. Is overcrowding an issue in prisons at the moment? Are there facilities that would be identified as overcrowded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Does that present a particular issue for those who have disabilities, such as autism and those kinds of disabilities?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: What occupancy are they at on average at the moment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: They are at 117%, as opposed to what they should be, which is 90%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Are we able to provide any supports services to people who neurologically might find that particularly challenging?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Accessing Justice: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: About their hospital, yes. What does Ms Campbell do then?