Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority
2:00 am
Ms Angela Fitzgerald:
Some of those consultancy services would be for contractors delivering programmes of work. We talked about the digital strategy earlier on. In its five years, we have delivered over 100 projects that support infrastructure in terms of keeping the lights on in technical terms, ensuring that systems talk to one another and leveraging those systems from a cybersecurity point of view. We have 24-hour surveillance for cybersecurity. A lot of those purchase orders relate to that space. I agree with the Deputy that it is important that we have the internal capability. With the support of the Department, we are looking to repatriate some of that cost into our core budget.
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