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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: Based on an estimated liability of €360 million in 2011 to deal with the 12,000 people who were denied their payments, would the costs, including inflation, etc., not be substantially more now?

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: Would the Comptroller and Auditor General be able to comment on that?

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 Department and the Government would like to class this whole scandal of elderly people being ripped off and denied their entitlements as historical and deliberate - the policy decision was deliberate - but there is one issue that is ongoing. It also relates to the most vulnerable, namely, people in nursing homes. I have raised the issue with the HSE numerous times and with Mr. Watt at...

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: In the here and now, this scandal continues with patients being charged for wound dressings, ointment creams, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy and other basic entitlements. The Department has done nothing. Neither the Department nor the HSE has acted and this is ongoing on a daily basis. Does Mr. Watt agree with the proposal set out in that FOI response? What will he do? The...

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: There is no action.

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: There is the problem. The Department is putting it back on the most vulnerable. I have just said that when patients in nursing homes or family members complain, the family are told they can take their mother or father elsewhere. The assistant national director to whom I referred suggested that a clause be put in the contract. Why is there reluctance to do that? Why is there reluctance to...

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: Why has that not been done?

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 an ongoing scandal that could be sorted.

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: This was two years ago but an official says they will have to take that away. For goodness sake.

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, it is under the fair deal scheme.

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 initial contract.

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: Between the HSE-----

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: Yes, and the clause should be in that.

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 assistant national director recommended this and said that was the only way that they could see.

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: Why has this not been done?

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Imelda Munster: What is the purpose or responsibility of any Government worth its salt? It is to look after all of its citizens, including the elderly and vulnerable, and to ensure fairness and that people get their rights and entitlements. Again again, successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments have failed the people. The report from the Attorney General published on Tuesday divides the...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Imelda Munster: I apologise for being late. My time management today has gone out the window. When I arrived, the Chair was asking the Minister about the 9% VAT rate and the current lobbying to retain it. I know this is not strictly the Minister's decision, but we had conversations previously with regard to the exorbitant prices hotels, especially in cities, are charging and the reputational damage this...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Imelda Munster: Is the Minister not concerned about the cost of hotel rooms? We quoted some prices at committee previously. A one-night stay in a particular Dublin hotel cost more than €1,000. That did not include breakfast. It was an extra €56 if someone wanted breakfast. Other hotel rooms cost upwards of €400 per night. Does the Minister question why those hotels that charge...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Imelda Munster: To follow up on that, to retain the VAT rate in order to remain competitive is fair enough for businesses that are not charging those exorbitant rates, but it is hard to justify how the prices I referenced are competitive when they are compared with other European countries. I did not come across one single person that was not outraged when they looked to holiday at home last year, or even...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Imelda Munster: How are those hotel charges allowing us to be competitive? Do they consider those charges competitive?