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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: -----creating programmes-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: -----that require IHIs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Fair enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: In the medium to long term, so in three to five years, and right now as the Bill is coming through, are we still in the process of creating or spending capital funds on systems that rely on IHIs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Are we only spending money then on systems that can operate uniquely and alone on PPSNs? Are we still spending money on systems that require IHIs plus PPSNs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Whether or not there is an extra cost, I am asking whether we are still spending capital funds on systems or operating procedures that require IHIs as part of the system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: We are still putting funding and money into the IHI system. That is the opposite of phasing it out, if Mr. O'Connor sees what I mean.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: We are still adding capacity-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: -----to that system.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I know but-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: -----is that the problem though? They should be different projects. We should be winding one system down, notwithstanding that it worked in the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Is that a record number though?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I would argue that maybe the thing to do is invest in the PPSN system so that we know it is correct and that all of the firewalls are in place and that it not prone to error, rather than creating two parallel systems that work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: To finish out the IHI issue, we spoke a little about the Health Identifiers Act 2014. Does the Act requires that we have a central generation of IHIs? Is it something we are just doing in practice now? If so, do we need to amend the legislation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: It did not require for the IHI itself for each individual person to be generated from a central source so there would be no duplication.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay but there are many bodies in the HSE. Has there been any consideration of amending the Act?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I want to move very quickly to another area. Before I do, Mr. O'Connor mentioned he might send a note on the IHI. If we could get the number of how many IHIs have been issued since 2014 it would be very useful. The question is not how many people have an IHI but how many IHIs have been generated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I want to go back to access for research. I am unashamedly coming at this from a position where I would like to see a lot of access. I want to protect everybody's privacy and see disaggregated data of course but I would like reasonable access for researchers. I went down a rabbit hole on data matching and how some of it works. Will the witnesses provide some detail on how accessible...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information Bill 2023: Department of Health (10 May 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Is the Minister's oversight of that significant?