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Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Sep 2024)

Emer Higgins: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." In bringing this Bill before the House, I am standing in for the Minister of State with responsibility for trade promotion, digital and company regulation, Deputy Calleary, who is travelling on official business. Before proceeding, I acknowledge the significant work by those involved, most notably in the past 12 months, to develop the...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I welcome this Bill and the opportunity to contribute. I might be a little cheeky and say that it is great to have more than two minutes or even a shared minute to be able to contribute to such an important Bill. I heard the Minister's opening statement. While it is welcome, as this has been desperately required for the last number of years and we all know that has been the case, the...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Mary Butler: I thank the Members of this House for their contributions to the debate and I look forward to their support as this Bill is further considered on Committee Stage. Throughout the development of the new digital health framework and the Health Information Bill, we have listened carefully to the voices of patients, professionals and other stakeholders across our health services. It is clear...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Denise Mitchell: As my colleagues have said, we are happy to support this Bill, which will seek to create digital health records for the first time. It would create much-needed streamlining in our health system. My only criticism is that we are only starting the process now. We have been a long time talking about the need for digital health records and I imagine there are health staff across this State...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Thomas Pringle: Overall, I welcome this Bill and the intention to introduce digital health records to our healthcare service. There is no doubt that we lag miles behind other EU and OECD countries with respect to digital healthcare. Ireland is currently ranked lowest of all OECD countries in digital health readiness and is one of just four member states that does not provide its citizens with access to...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are three speakers left for the Rural Independent Group. They have four minutes each. Only two speakers are present. I remind Deputies that we are discussing the Health Information Bill 2024.

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: While I appreciate that we are debating the Health Information Bill 2024, I must informed that House that we have just returned from a presentation about scoliosis patients. Given that heard children of 14 years of age saying that they have been left behind by the State, it would be very wrong to leave that room and not come into the Chamber and acknowledge what is going on in that regard....

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: This Bill is about making sure that digital health records are used safely and effectively to improve healthcare in Ireland. I will begin by referring to data protection. I wrote to the Minister two years ago about the very subject matter of the Bill, namely health records. Sometimes in a hospital a doctor will send on a patient's records and the next thing that happens is correspondence...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: I, too, welcome this Bill. Ireland ranks lowest among OECD countries in its ability to link and access data. This Health Information Bill represents a critical step towards modernising Ireland's healthcare system by providing a legal basis for digital health records and facilitating the sharing of patient data. The Bill aims to improve patient care and bring Ireland into line with...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We move on to the Rural Independent Group. I call Deputy Mattie McGrath.

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Health Information Bill 2024 is a step towards modernising healthcare in Ireland. It is a big statement and I welcome the Bill because we badly need to modernise the health system in Ireland. The Health Information Bill 2024, which was published on 19 June last, aims to establish a legal framework for digital health records in Ireland and set guidelines for sharing patient data in the...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are three speakers scheduled but they are not here. I call Deputy Michael Collins.

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Michael Collins: I am communicating with them but I am not getting through. The purpose of this Bill is to ensure that digital health records are used safely and effectively to improve healthcare in Ireland. This is an extremely important issue. Maybe we have let it slip in the past number of years. We have not kept up to speed with what was going on around the world. Something that has been making...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: This Bill prioritises the establishment of the digital health records and access to health data for care and treatment. It will make things better for patients. Previous speakers have spoken about patients. Healthcare is so important for patients. That is our priority. With regard to whatever way we can help, whether through information, addressing records or Bills, it is important that...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Martin Browne: I welcome the opportunity to discuss this Bill because the current system of largely pen-and-paper patient records has been a source of some disappointment and frustration, for clinicians and patients alike. When the general scheme of the Bill was before the Oireachtas committee on health last year, Mr. Muiris O'Connor summed up the matter up with the following comment: "The reality is that,...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Now, Deputy Naughten. No. Sorry - I am reading the list wrong again. I call Deputy Darren O'Rourke.

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Darren O'Rourke: Sinn Féin welcomes the Bill and the opportunity it presents. Those of us who engage with friends and counterparts in different European countries are aware of the relationship people have with their medical information. Often, with an app on their phones, they can access lab results or other information in real time. They think nothing of it and have had that technology for almost...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Deputy Naughten, at last we get to you.

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Mary Butler: Third time lucky.

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Denis Naughten: I am sharing time with Deputy Verona Murphy. Ireland is a very modern country. We are one of the global exporters of software but, unfortunately, when it comes to the adoption of digital health, we are a laggard. It is important that we acknowledge that part of that problem is down to us in this House and the way we, as politicians, handled the whole PPARS debacle, which had a chilling...