Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Senator asked whether the data collected as part of vaccination was at risk, and he named some of the various data fields collected. To put the Senator's mind at rest, my understanding is they are collected by a system in the cloud developed very recently by IBM and they have not been affected by the hack and all of those data are safe.

On the question as to whether we are at war, I believe the Constitution defines when Ireland goes to war. It is a particular state and we are not in that state at present, unless it is a metaphorical war such as the war on drugs or the war on poverty. All institutions of the State are working. I am seeing a lot of harmonious connections between the Departments. Everyone recognises this is a threat to all of the patients and users of the HSE, which constitutes everybody in Ireland. Everybody is working on this at maximum capacity. There is no problem about parts of the Government not co-operating with each other. I meet the Ministers for Health and Justice every day to make sure our response to this is co-ordinated and there really is no problem in this regard.