Professor Risteárd Ó Laoide:

In radiation therapy because it is very IT-dependent and the radiation services actually stopped for a while, which did not happen at all during the cyberattack. The staff were able to continue the radiation but the service itself stopped. The cyberattack happened on a Friday and the physicists and IT professionals in the network, particularly in the St. Luke's radiation oncology network, spent the entire weekend working and had some of the service back up and running by, I think, Tuesday or Wednesday. Compared with international standards, that was the fastest recovery from a cyberattack on a radiation unit internationally. I thank the staff who worked tirelessly to bring that service together. They also helped the other units in Cork and Galway to bring their services back. It is quite a complicated, IT-intensive system. Diagnostics is dependent on systems such as the NIMIS IT imaging system, the path system for patient registrations, e-referrals, etc., so the staff in diagnostics were particularly affected. It was broader than that, though, and if the committee would like, we could send it a paper on the cyberattack.