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- 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...
- 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.