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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...

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

David Cullinane: I am sharing time with my colleagues. Sinn Féin will support the Bill. This legislation provides, in the main, for digital health records. Digital transformation is essential to improve patient safety, bring the health service into the 21st century, improve productivity, efficiency and value for money, and to properly hold the system to account. Accessible patient records are at the...

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

Thomas Gould: It is important that we discuss this today. It is disappointing, however, that the Taoiseach, Deputy Harris, in his time as Minister for Health did nothing to sanction or secure funding for this. To be fair, Fianna Fáil has not been much better in health but at least this Bill is now being brought forward, towards the end of this Government. Will we see it passed in the light of day...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: As was said earlier, Deputy Doherty asked for the full documentation to be furnished to the committee. It was the expectation of all committee members that all relevant documentation would be submitted. We look forward to hearing about it. It is very disturbing that Mr. Conlon cannot say this was a waste of money. We have to remember this is taxpayers' money, and when I say taxpayers, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That is the end of the process. Was it at the stage of being closed in November 2021?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: There were no further bids after November 2021?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I am not suggesting anything different. I just want to get the timings right. The timings are very important in this. Mr. Conlon said earlier that he would re-scope the project if it were to come to his desk now. How many projects under €1 million have been re-scoped in the past because the project that was being presented was not deemed by the OPW to give value for money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I appreciate Mr. Conlon might not have the documentation here today but perhaps he could let the committee have note of how many projects were re-scoped because they were deemed not to be value for money? That relates to projects under €1 million in the past four years. That would be useful. How many people were aware of what was happening? Who was involved? I know Mr. Conlon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Three people made the decision that this was value for money.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: That was one person. If there were a similar project today, would it be signed off by one person at the OPW rather than by group consensus?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: If today there were a project for €200,000, would that be signed off by one person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, but as was said earlier, the lessons to be learned were to be learned in 2014 when the Siopa was built, and obviously they have not. People will ask what reason they have to believe now that lessons are going to be learned. Lessons are going to be learned seems to be the mantra of so many things across government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: What were the values of the two other quotes from the contractors that were not selected? Mr. Conlon stated that he selected the cheapest one. What were the values of the other two?