Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2021-05-20
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Alan Kelly (LAB), Tipperary

In the last few minutes, The Irish Times journalist Conor Lally referred to Bloomberg reports that those who have hacked into the HSE system are threatening to publish a mass amount of data online by next Monday, 24 May. The Minister may not be aware of this. What are we doing to prepare for this? The Minister, Deputy Ryan, organised a meeting yesterday with key Departments, and I thank him for that, but we all need to see a plan. What are people who are watching today, or those working for the HSE, to do when they have questions? We need an information line and we need information online. This is rapidly turning into a national security crisis for our country. What is the plan?
I presume that a vulnerability assessment and penetration test, VAPT, is being done by the National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC, or is being organised by the NCSC across all State bodies and Departments to ensure they are not hacked also.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-20