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. Seamus McCarthy:
I have not seen the parliamentary question. I might look at it in the break. There is certainly a charge in the HSE where it reimburses the State Claims Agency because the settlements have been made. In 2021 the figure was €461 million. That is funded then through the Vote. That is how the HSE gets the money. I do not understand any kind of reference that there is not a crystallisation of those liabilities. In the latest year we have reported on, about 10% of that has crystallised in a single year, so it is crystallising year-by-year; that is an expense that will be met.