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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: 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?

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.