Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

First, the actual cyber report is there. I would say publicly that this was not a weakness in the attack. However, the Deputy is correct that it is a factor that gives us an exposure. There has been an ongoing mutli-year replacement phase on those. A number of them rely on one of our national integrated medical imaging system, NIMIS, systems. We have to replace the actual basis system, NIMIS, and then we can get rid of the remaining ones that rely on it, which are interfaces for that level of software. However, there is a multi-annual ban on it. It is an exposure. We have set out a plan to replace it.