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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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: There was not uncertainty. There was a minuted record. We take minutes to justify in the history what actually happened. Is that not correct? Is that not what minutes are for? They tell us what actually happened a month on, a year on or, in this case, 25 years on, you could say. The minuted record says that the Attorney General was sent a signed letter by the Secretary General. That is...

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: We do not need just clarity. It goes to the heart of transparency because what is in the media and the issue here for the public is what we are calling concealment. How do we have a Secretary General in a Department preparing a brief for the Attorney General and that Secretary General does not have all the facts and is not clear that this did or did not happen?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: Would the minutes often be wrong? Is that what Mr. Watt is saying - that the minutes are often wrong and it never gets clarified?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: When minutes are agreed, they are agreed. Is Mr. Watt saying that it is possible the minutes were wrong-----

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: -----and they are often wrong and nobody bothers?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: Why would Mr. Watt not be aware?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: If the minutes of a Department are wrong, it goes to the core of transparency within the Department itself. Clearly, the minutes had to be made up. If the letter was never sent, somebody was under the illusion or disillusion at the end of it. Why was the minute wrong? More to the point, why was it never corrected?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: Would Mr. Watt consider it serious?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: I did not ask Mr. Watt to comment on that. If the minuted record was incorrect and never corrected and never explained, would Mr. Watt consider it to be serious? If what Mr. Watt says here today is not recorded properly and somebody said he said something, would he not consider that serious?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Watt is being asked why a Department would stand and preside over incorrect records and not be accountable or explain same.

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: They were never addressed and never explained.

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: In the same way, the report goes on to state-----

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: -----that there were briefs withheld from the Ombudsman when that report was commissioned. For me, there is an awful lot of explanation required. I understand Mr. Watt did not preside over this but, as the now Accounting Officer in the Department, this has to be explained.

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: That is what I am asking.

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: We are, Chair, so what we need is an explanation as to why the minuted record in 2004 that was prepared was completely at odds with what actually happened. The article states it was never explained and no one was held accountable. I am sure no one is going to be held accountable but we want it explained.

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: The article that Fintan O'Toole wrote in The Irish Times. I am pretty sure that if it is an incorrect article, there will be a defamation case lodged by somebody. Clearly, it is set out as fact that the minuted record was incorrect and never explained, and nobody was ever held accountable as to why the facts were incorrect.

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: I have some binary questions. They are not binary in requiring "Yes" or "No" answers, but just figures. What was the total figure for the settlement of the 515 claims?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: Through the redress scheme, what was the figure?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: Mr. Watt just said there were 515 cases. What was the cost?

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 Feb 2023)

Verona Murphy: Do we have a figure?