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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)

Matt Carthy: That is unacceptable. This issue was well flagged. Anyone who took even a cursory glance at the transcript of last week's meeting would have seen this was an area of concern to the committee. I do not accept it is simply a case that the Department does not have the information. I think it is stonewalling, to put it frankly.

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)

Matt Carthy: I would have considered-----

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)

Matt Carthy: -----this to be of such importance that the information would have been provided.

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)

Matt Carthy: I believe the HSE has this information. That it has not shared it with the Secretary General, by his own account, or with this committee raises further questions.

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)

Matt Carthy: Gabhaim buíochas arís leis an gCathaoirleach. I will follow on from a point made by Mr. Watt, which has been repeated by several officials and Government Ministers. It relates to the Government having accepted the legal basis of medical card holders in private nursing homes. We can have a debate in respect of that. That is not the case when we are dealing with the long-term...

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)

Matt Carthy: This is an important distinction because this is not the case of some people being paid as a result of a legal negotiation and a settlement. People made an appeal. Their appeal was upheld. The Government, of its own volition, was then challenging 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)

Matt Carthy: Those people, then, essentially received a cheque for the amount of their claim without having to enter into any negotiations. They received their entitlements essentially.

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)

Matt Carthy: If we then focus, our concern then is in respect of those people who would have been similarly entitled, had they appealed. Apart from the three houses mentioned where a group of appeals were made, were any other institutions involved and were any subsequent payments made to people who qualified under these criteria either as a result of their own legal action or as a result of, for example,...

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)

Matt Carthy: With regard to the questions I asked earlier, Mr. Watt said he would try to provide answers before the meeting concluded. The first of those questions was whether we know the number of people who applied who fitted the criteria but did not appeal. Do we have that number yet?

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)

Matt Carthy: I take it there are not yet numbers for the people who would have qualified but did not apply.

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)

Matt Carthy: Does Mr. Watt have a timeframe for getting those figures?

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)

Matt Carthy: Is there somebody working on that at the moment?

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)

Matt Carthy: At our meeting last week, the CEO of the HSE used a particular phrase which I found interesting when I looked back at it. He described the health repayments scheme as “not quite closed but is largely closed”. The question that arises is whether the Department, the Government and the HSE collectively envisage a scenario where new people will be paid under that 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)

Matt Carthy: The point is that we now know that there are, at a minimum, several thousand people who would have qualified had they appealed because they met the same criteria.

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)

Matt Carthy: I want to read into the record again an extract from the 2011 secret memo from the Government: In addition, there are other institutions similar to St. Michael’s, Cheeverstown and the Daughters of Charity with residents who would have similar potential claims. [In their cases] Claims rejected under the repayment scheme were not appealed or no claims were made under the 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)

Matt Carthy: It is not now. This was accepted back in 2011.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the additional information on CCTV, although it is difficult to fathom how we do not already have CCTV in place. This has been going on for far too long. CCTV is necessary if we are to maintain the integrity of, and public esteem in, the sector. A number of issues arise with the exit package of the former CEO. According to the correspondence, it is a standard feature of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: I agree with that assessment. I must again say that I am often astounded by the number of regulatory bodies we have that will do anything to avoid regulating. What the committee shared with the ASAI was an anomaly that found that its previous finding was incorrect. We dispute the assertion, and I think most reasonable people would do so as well, that prize money and commissions paid to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: There are a couple of points to be added to the list based on what we agreed previously. We agreed the lottery regulator should been invited. Again, I think there may have been a change of personnel. I am not sure whether that will have an effect. The issues we have been dealing with concerning the HSE and Department of Health will also require re-examination by this committee as more...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Matt Carthy: It is in respect of the immigrant investor programme. This is the programme whereby non-EU nationals can secure residency in Ireland and, therefore, the UK by becoming involved in investments or philanthropic endeavours. We are talking about substantial sums of money but, relatively speaking, there is an argument that it is a small amount of money for a big cost in terms of what the State...