Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is also important and the point is well made. We should probably also be tracking the cost of all the scams and of cybercrime - the preventive side is one thing - as well as all the outlay cost that is needed. At one point, we could not get answers from the Department of Health because no one was able to talk to anyone else. There were blocks on questions because staff did not have the ability to talk to one another or access information they would have previously been able to access. The person hours are lost all day every day when staff are not able to do what they normally do, get locked out of or lose their data or have to pay a ransom to get their data back.