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:

I do not think we shared a detailed note with a committee because it is incredibly complex. There is a detailed report by the Attorney General, which came out this Tuesday, that sets out chapter and verse on this. There are three periods from 1983 to 1996 when that practice was in place. Subsequently, it was established that the practice was ultra viresand the proper legislative basis was not there for it. There were changes then from 1996 to 1999 and then the disability allowance came in subsequently. There were different rules for people who were new to disability allowance compared with those people who already received it. It depends on the period. There are different periods-----