Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Watt:

Elements of that contingent liability crystalise each year when cases are settled so I do not quite understand. I do not know if the Comptroller and Auditor General has a view. We try to estimate what it will be, like we do with lots of contingent liabilities of the State. Public private partnership, PPP, contracts are an example. There are future payments the State must honour as part of PPPs and they are set out as a liability in the accounts.