Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 1 July 2021
389. Deputy Martin Browne asked the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to ensure that hospital staff are supported in doing their work during the extraordinary situation in which they find themselves following the cyber-attack. [28662/21]
View answerI am grateful for the measures being taken by all public health sector staff in trying to maintain services that have been impacted by the recent cyber attack.
Supporting staff impacted by the recent cyber attack against the HSE is a matter for the HSE to respond on. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.
