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. Damien McCallion:

Mr. Reid has covered it well. We are part of a cross-government group. This process involves multiple Departments and agencies. Essentially, our role is in providing the data and trying to support the process from a range of perspectives. There are three mechanisms in the digital travel certificate - vaccination, people testing positive in the preceding nine months and the private testing side, which is a separate process to the public health system. We are working on ensuring that we have the data available to support the overall process. We are working with Departments as part of that cross-government approach to the project.