Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack

9:30 am

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

No. Just deal with this specific issue. These are people with disabilities who were in long-term residential care and who should have fallen under the remit of the repayment scheme. The scheme's appeals officer accepted that. The Government technically accepted it because it withdrew its appeal to the High Court and paid approximately 500 people. There is a serious question, one that has not been answered, about whether efforts have been made to identify people with severe disabilities whose money was taken from them. I want to know by the end of this meeting how many people were impacted by that and whether measures are being put in place to ensure they are compensated for that loss. Will Mr. Watt assure us we will have that information by the end of this meeting?

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