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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)

Steven Matthews: Mr. Conlan is very welcome and I congratulate him on his appointment last April. I thank him and his staff for attending. The OPW does some very fine work in this country, throughout all of our counties, constituencies and not least in this fine building we find ourselves sitting in. I also acknowledge the tremendous assistance Mr. Ciarán O'Connor has been to us on the Joint...

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

Steven Matthews: I want to acknowledge the very fine work done by the OPW and its very good history. I want to start with the bike shelter. Did it require planning permission?

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

Steven Matthews: Did the OPW consider alternatives that may have been exempt from planning that might have been of a lesser size or intrusion on the building?

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

Steven Matthews: When planning permission is sought on a protected structure a declaration can be sought to see if it is exempt from planning permission and seek a section 57 conservation officer report to say whether a project would materially impact or affect the building. Was that done with DCC?

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

Steven Matthews: So the OPW decided the conservation aspect itself rather than the planning authority.

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

Steven Matthews: On the location of the shelter, and we have spoken at length about the granite paving, for example, 90% of the parking area is tarmacked. Why was a decision made that where the bikes are parked had to be granite and could not be just tarmac?

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

Steven Matthews: Consistent with the building next door.

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

Steven Matthews: On the location of the structure, according to the costs the cost of the bike shelter and the manufacture, supply and install comes to €121,000. So it is all the extra works around the shelter that have trebled the price. On locating the shelter quite far from where power was available, why not go to the other side of the buildings where there are EV charging points to pick up on...

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

Steven Matthews: Were the people who were making that decision aware that this project was going to incur all these extra costs due to being quite far from power, the difficulties in try to connect to drainage over there and the granite paving? Had it gone to where the EV charging points were located, the OPW would not have had to try to marry the paving up with the building next door. If somebody were...

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

Steven Matthews: In those discussions, did the OPW say, "If we put it here where the EV charging points are, we will actually reduce costs by this amount?" Was that part of the conversation or was it just aesthetically this is where we are going to put it?