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:

We now know, given the ruling since then, that from 1983 to 1996, it acted ultra vires. It is not clear what that means in terms of remedies; it depends. There is not an automatic entitlement to a remedy when the Government or anybody acts ultra vires.