Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. Daily updates would be very useful. At the moment, the very latest I got from the HSE, just before coming into this session, is that to get all of the systems back up and running, that is, the 2,000 servers and the 80,000 machines, is going to take several weeks. It is a huge effort, with hundreds of people involved right across the country. At the same time, there are priority areas the HSE is focusing on, and that includes radiology, radiation oncology, the patient administration system and the voluntary hospitals. These things do not always work out as we want, they are complex and there can be unforeseen things happening, but the hope is that, in the coming days, parts of those priority areas - as many parts as possible - will be back up and running.

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