Colm Burke (Cork North-Central, Fine Gael)
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220. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the total number of the 19 maternity hospitals that are fully computerised/digitised, which can operate without paper files; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24087/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The National Maternal and Newborn Clinical Management Systems (MN-CMS) is being deployed across maternity sites in Ireland to provide a single, comprehensive and electronic health record for women being treated in our maternity hospitals and for all newborns. To date, four sites are live at Cork University Maternity Hospital, The Rotunda in Dublin, the National Maternity Hospital (Holles Street) and the maternity unit at University Hospital, Kerry. This month we expect The Coombe Hospital in Dublin will go live, to be followed later this year by Limerick Regional Maternity Hospital. This will result in an estimated 70% of all babies in Ireland born with an Electronic Health Record. The programme was impacted by the pandemic and subsequent cyber attack which paused deployments and also required a hardening of the system and migration to a (secure) cloud. The HSE are developing plans on how to optimise deployments to the remaining sites, given there are a larger number of smaller sites remaining, in order to achieve 100% coverage.