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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: People do not have IHIs at this stage but the intention is that everybody will have one, which will be a combination of their PPS number and Eircode. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Why are we talking about Eircodes then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: That is not a PPS number.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: PPS numbers will replace IHIs. What is an IHI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. O'Connor said that PPS numbers will replace IHIs. An IHI is a 16-digit number. From where is that derived?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Have people got IHIs that somebody else knows but that they do not know themselves?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: I did not catch that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Does everybody have an IHI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: But nobody knows it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: So that system, and goodness knows what it cost, is not going to be used in future. Is that the case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is there a link between the IHI and the PPS number?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Why can we not just use the IHI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: At what point does Mr. Lennon expect the system to be operating on the basis of PPS numbers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Is there a plan for that or is it just in theory?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: At what point does Mr. Lennon expect PPS numbers to be used as identifiers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Assuming the eventual legislation will be passed, tell us about the practical element.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Mr. Lennon is talking about the IHI, which is a 16-digit number, the origin of which we do not really know, and the PPS number. What is the connection between the two of those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: Am I the only person who is not following this?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: However, we will still be using the IHI.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Róisín Shortall: When we tried to get to the bottom of this back in January, Fran Thompson told us it would be five to seven years before the system is in place because of the messing about that has taken place over almost a decade now.