Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Damien McCallion:

I can add to what Mr. Mulvany said. We stood up a team who will be making contact with people, so all of that part of it is in place. The scoping out of those who need to be contacted is what is being closed off at the moment. As the Deputy said, it is complex in relation to just being precise about who needs to be contacted following the attack. As he can imagine, trying to work that through is complex. That is the piece that is being closed out at the moment. In addition, there are ongoing discussions with the DPO and others just to make sure that the process is fully robust and when we start that process off, it is clear in how we deal with people who may concerned as a result of it. It is, as Mr. Mulvany said, getting closer, but there are just a number of final steps around that scoping and making sure we are clear what that contact is. The teams have been stood up and are ready to move once we need to move. We utilised some of the resource that we had in the pandemic in terms of contract tracing. We reassigned some of those people so that we will have a team ready to go once we clarify the scope of it and some the legal and other data protection issues.

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