Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

This is very important. As I said, I am informed by the Department that the issues raised by the doctors through the media are being addressed by the HSE. Significant efforts have been undertaken by the HSE to ensure that hospital teams are incorporated into the design and deployment of the MedLIS system at all hospital sites. MedLIS aims to modernise laboratory services, ensuring high-quality, efficient and patient-concentrated care across Ireland.

Officials in the Department are not aware of any other general issues regarding general diagnostics. It is important that the Senator would share the specifics with me today. He referred to the risk assessment and the suggestion that there are 16 flaws with the IT system. He might give that information to the HSE again. I know the HSE is committed to working with Beaumont on this system. It is important that all of us work together to solve whatever concerns there are. This is about patient safety and how we all work together. I again thank the Senator for highlighting this very important issue.