Officials were also worried that the so-called Millennium Bug could cause medical devices to fail when the year 2000 arrived.
Thousands of revellers outside Belfast City Hall celebrate at the stroke of midnight, as Northern Ireland welcomed in the new Millennium
The paper was prepared for incoming health minister Bairbre de Brun, who was appointed to the role in the new Stormont executive a month prior to the new year festivities.The paper published by the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland also outlined the concerns around the so-called Millennium Bug and the potential for the date change to disrupt IT systems within the region’s health service, including the failure of medical devices.
“As well as the need for fall-back ‘business continuity’ plans there is also a need to ensure that major incident plans will be able to cope with the potential demands over the critical date-change period, and beyond.
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