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Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Do the witnesses have any views - I have spoken to the Minister about this before - on the supports Government provides, not so much financial but a supporting framework to businesses that choose to move to a more co-operative model? There has been interesting work in the UK around businesses that choose to move to that place, rather than wind down, for example.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: The witnesses do not wish to make a comment about PRSI.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: It does not concern so much members of the witnesses' organisations or the people they represent, but we always wonder if there are sufficient data and public information in the public sphere around what is happening the business community. We could put this question to other sectors as well. Do the witnesses believe that not just the Department of Finance but also the Department of Public...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Try not to get into too much trouble.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: We hear that exact thing in the health sphere all the time. It is not that they are not making the data available, but the data have not been collected or collated. I thank the witnesses for their responses which were very interesting. I thank them for coming before the committee. It was an evening session, so I appreciate their time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. I am cognisant of the seriousness of the spectrum of issues we are discussing. I will use my time to focus on the issue of long Covid because it is an emerging issue. Like a lot of people, I am trying to get a good handle on it. It is one of those issues arising out of the Covid pandemic that we possibly will be dealing with long into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I had to get them all in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Welfare and Safety of Workers and Patients in Public Health Service: Discussion (8 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I know the Chair wants to move onto the next person, but to be clear, by my reading of that parliamentary question, if the Minister for Social Protection recognised it as an occupational disease we might be able to sidestep the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: This might be a question for Mr. Thompson. In 2018 the State received an infrastructure loan from the European Investment Bank, EIB, for digital investment in health. Given the context of the cyberattack, what is the status of that? How much is spent and how much applied to particular projects?

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)

Neasa Hourigan: 2018.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. We heard last week from the HSE that in its estimation - we are talking about digital services right now - the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, NPHDB, would mostly be doing the equipping. I do not know if we fixed on a time for substantial completion of the hospital. I think we decided that the middle of next year was probably realistic.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: A period of commissioning being about six months.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: By my reading of the documents, the NPHDB will do most of the equipping during that commissioning stage.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: Overlap.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay. CHI is going to do the digital commissioning.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: I noted its press release last week after the Committee of Public Accounts.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: It is going to be fantastic to have a digitally literate hospital; nobody is arguing with that. What I am trying to get at is the timeline. CHI has €4.3 million to do that work.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: Yes. The figure I am being given now is €83 million but Mr. Tierney is saying there is matched funding somewhere.

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)

Neasa Hourigan: Okay.