Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
To reassure the Deputy, the board has directly created a separate committee to give additional oversight and governance around cyber risk. The €700 million over the ten years is an investment that would have been required anyway at some point, or the vast bulk of it. The issue partly was we were not able to put enough investment into this area and partly we would have always tried to focus on providing access to systems to support clinical and operational as well as to invest in the cyber piece. We have all got a very clear message, namely, we need to and needed to invest more and more in the cyber piece, which is what we are doing.