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- 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.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The problem is with the technology.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Mary Butler: This is what we are talking about.
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Joe Flaherty: In the time I came from my office to the Chamber, there was a changing of the guard. In that context, I was going to mention to the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, the Topical Issue I raised last night. However, I will leave it and follow up with him later. I welcome much of the spirit and intention of this Bill. It places priority focus on the establishment of digital health records and...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Cathal Crowe: A Cheann Comhairle, 80602 is a seven-year-old Hereford cow I have on my farm. Her entire health record is on the Agfood website from the moment she was born up to the current time, including every vaccination withdrawal period and her annual BVD test. Everything is there. I drive a Honda car. Every detail about my car, including every NCT report setting out the percentage performance of...
- Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)
Imelda Munster: As my colleagues said, Sinn Féin will be supporting this Bill because we recognise the importance of digital transformation in the healthcare system to improve patient safety, modernise the health service, improve accountability and efficiency and provide value for money. The Bill is a very watered down version of what we need, which is to provide basic shared care records that we...