Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 13 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General - Chapter 9: Implementation of the National Broadband Plan

9:30 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

Those are matters I am sure the Deputy took up with the HSE. The reality is, as I understand it from the operation of the HSE systems, from which I am at arm's-length, certain vital pieces of equipment are being operated using technology and legacy systems that are a bit dated, but the HSE plans to invest several hundred million euro and it has already invested significant sums to upgrade that infrastructure. The NCSC has worked closely with the HSE since the cyberattack, in terms of remediation and addressing the horrible criminal attack that was effected on the HSE, and in supporting it with its ongoing work.