Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 September 2021
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE
9:30 am
Mr. Paul Reid:
With regard to the cyberattack, we know of a range of costs that we have immediately incurred on it. There will also be a range of costs next year. We know we have an immediate range of costs relating to device replacements. We will have to replace approximately 30,000 devices that are not up to the standard we need on our network. The ballpark figure for this is a €30 million recurring cost. The immediate range of costs we have had include infrastructure, vendor support and the range of international support we have had to engage in terms of monitoring. That amounts to close to €20 million. We are seeing recurring costs that will be needed for device replacements and for 24-7 monitoring of our network, which we did not have in place. We do have it in place now. There are also the legacy networks and servers we will have to replace. We are awaiting a finalised report from the consultancy group working with us on the impact of the cyberattack. Ultimately, as I have said, we could see costs of €100 million being incurred in respect of this matter.
No comments