Health Service Executive

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 27 July 2021

Tuesday, 27 July 2021

Ceisteanna (2583)

Mattie McGrath

Ceist:

2583. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health when full services will be re-established following the HSE cyber-attack; when the HSE will be in a position to respond to Parliamentary Questions; when full data will be made available daily in relation to Covid-19 including the daily numbers tested, deaths, positivity rates and so on; the reason the cyber-attack prevents the HSE from answering questions on matters of policy decisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38281/21]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Health

The core of the HSE IT infrastructure is now available including all networks, domain access, Citrix, internet, mobile phone and limited remote access.

Email has broadly been restored to all users however there are still a number of users who still have issues.

As the priority systems which are the backbone of the HSE ICT infrastructure are restored there will be a long tail of ancillary systems and system integrations to be restored which will impact HSE services. It will be September before this restoration work is completed.

The HSE CIDR surveillance system (which collates and report cases, deaths, outbreaks, positivity rates etc) is now restored again post the cyber-attack and the cases notified since the 14th of May are currently being uploaded on the system.  Full reporting should be restored in the next two weeks.