Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on the Cyberattack, Covid-19 Vaccination Roll-out and Covid-19 Restrictions in Maternity Hospitals: Health Service Executive

Mr. Fran Thompson:

I thank Mr. Reid. Our intention is to put something in place on an interim basis and to then go to full procurement later this year. We will probably have two service operation centres initially, one from Mandiant and another from our existing antivirus supplier, and we will then go to tender for a proper security operations centre during the year. It is our intention to do that this year. All of the costs will probably not incur until next year but there will some cost for it this year.