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
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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The point is that the first set of legal advice was incorrect. The second set is what deemed it to be ultra vires. The result is that while officials are supposedly watching for taxpayers' money, we paid out €486 million, which could have been €1 billion. The reality is that it was down to someone's mistake and it was not a member of the public, was it?