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 Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The point is that the first set of legal advice was incorrect. The second set is what deemed it to be ultra vires. The result is that while officials are supposedly watching for taxpayers' money, we paid out €486 million, which could have been €1 billion. The reality is that it was down to someone's mistake and it was not a member of the public, was it?

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