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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)

Imelda Munster: It is not that secret now, in fairness. It is out there. There was €360 million of liability.

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)

Imelda Munster: Before the weekend and before it came to light in the public domain, Mr. Watt was totally unaware of it.

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)

Imelda Munster: Does Mr. Watt think he was kept in the dark about it?

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)

Imelda Munster: However, Mr. Watt was aware of the fiasco as it stands. He was aware that people had an entitlement and of the whole history of the events that has unfurled in the past fortnight or so.

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)

Imelda Munster: Based on that €360 million liability, how many people would have been affected?

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)

Imelda Munster: Did Mr. Watt request it? Was he not interested in finding out how many of the most vulnerable in society would have been involved?

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)

Imelda Munster: Come on. Is Mr. Watt seriously telling us that he suddenly became aware very recently of the €360 million liability and, in his position as head of the Department of Health, he did not think "Hold on a second" or bother to ask how many of our most vulnerable citizens we were talking about here? If he seriously saying that? That would flag two issues, one of which is that he could...

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)

Imelda Munster: I am talking about the 2011 memorandum. I have said it now three times.

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)

Imelda Munster: It is the liability in relation to the long-term residential care. The Attorney General's report made no reference to it whatsoever. This liability was set aside maintaining that this could be the money that would be required if we were to settle with everyone who was entitled to it.

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)

Imelda Munster: Is Mr. Watt saying that the Department and HSE are only now looking to gather all that information and source people who would have been denied those payments?

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)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Watt referred to the Government. Did he meet the Minister directly on this issue in the past fortnight?

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)

Imelda Munster: No, on this issue.

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)

Imelda Munster: Did they sit down?

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)

Imelda Munster: The Minister is making a statement this afternoon.

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)

Imelda Munster: I am not asking Mr. Watt to pre-empt any announcements, but will the Minister be making that statement based on information Mr. Watt furnished him?

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)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Watt would have all the necessary figures and data the Minister would need.

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)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Watt is across all of it. In relation to this, has the Minister asked for a specific meeting with Mr. Watt? Has Mr. Watt sat down, as head of the Department, with the Minister? Did the Minister request a meeting?

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)

Imelda Munster: Was the meeting on this issue?

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)

Imelda Munster: Mr. Watt has met him on it. Earlier on, he did not quite clarify to my colleague that the Minister had requested a meeting with Mr. Watt and the two of them had sat down to discuss this issue.

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)

Imelda Munster: If the Department is basing that €360 million liability on 2011 figures, would it not cost the State a bit more now?