Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 May 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed)
Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
Some hospitals were almost untouched. From talking to the IT staff in St. Vincent’s University Hospital, they never had to stop any of their systems. They managed to continue. I cannot imagine that they are going to be joining into any future injunctions.
It is really a legal question for those hospitals. If the hospital is a separate, independent legal body and finds ransom notes on systems within the physical hospital building, then it may be advised by its lawyers that it needs to seek a separate injunction. It is a legal question for the hospitals to discuss with their counsel.
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