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- 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...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: Nobody here will disagree that we need digital and electronic health records. That is absolutely essential to delivering an operating health service and improving patient safety. We acknowledge the absolute necessity of ensuring we have all the necessary information, whether specific to a patient or beyond that. Holistic information is required for the data analysis that can provide us...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy's verbal dexterity knows no bounds.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Mary Butler: He covered some ground, in fairness.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: He never misses an opportunity. The next speaker is Deputy Naughten.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Denis Naughten: Is it me or Deputy Flaherty?
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: My apologies. Deputy Flaherty is next.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Denis Naughten: I must stick by my neighbour.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: My screen is letting me down.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Joe Flaherty: I will not take that as a slight, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The problem is with the technology.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Mary Butler: This is what we are talking about.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Joe Flaherty: In the time I came from my office to the Chamber, there was a changing of the guard. In that context, I was going to mention to the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, the Topical Issue I raised last night. However, I will leave it and follow up with him later. I welcome much of the spirit and intention of this Bill. It places priority focus on the establishment of digital health records and...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Cathal Crowe: A Cheann Comhairle, 80602 is a seven-year-old Hereford cow I have on my farm. Her entire health record is on the Agfood website from the moment she was born up to the current time, including every vaccination withdrawal period and her annual BVD test. Everything is there. I drive a Honda car. Every detail about my car, including every NCT report setting out the percentage performance of...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Imelda Munster: As my colleagues said, Sinn Féin will be supporting this Bill because we recognise the importance of digital transformation in the healthcare system to improve patient safety, modernise the health service, improve accountability and efficiency and provide value for money. The Bill is a very watered down version of what we need, which is to provide basic shared care records that we...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I very much welcome this debate on the Health Information Bill, even if it does feel like Groundhog Day. This piece of legislation is of critical importance to digitising our health service, and we in the Social Democrats are very happy to support it. Over the years, multiple national policies have committed to delivering ehealth technologies. The promise to revolutionise our health...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Duncan Smith: We welcome this Bill, which is very long overdue and the purpose of which is to provide, among other things, a legal basis for the development and deployment of digital health records. The Minister admitted that we have lagged significantly behind the rest of Europe on this. The reality is that our people have not been getting the best care they could due to the paper-based nature of our...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Mark Ward: We support this Bill because it provides for digital health records. Digital transformation is essential to improve patient safety. We need to bring the health service into the 21st century in order to improve productivity, efficiency and value for money and properly hold the system to account. It is 2024, and the fact we do not have an integrated IT system across the HSE is a damning...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister will be very familiar with some of the commentary that has existed for years around the HSE and the health service. The kind of things one hears when in conversation with people is that there is too much administration, there are individuals with clipboards and things like that. Some of that commentary is unfair and maybe people do not necessarily understand that a person with...