Questions on Promised Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2021-05-20
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Eamon Ryan (GP), Dublin Bay South

I very much appreciated the meeting we had yesterday where Deputy Kelly and other Deputies were briefed by An Garda Síochána on the cybersecurity system issue, which is of huge consequence for our health system, for individuals and for families. Subsequent to yesterday's meeting, the Minister for Justice, the Minister for Health and I had a meeting yesterday afternoon. We took up some of the suggestions from our earlier meeting. We will establish a helpline, which will be a confidential crime-line type system, for people if they are in any way approached. We must be careful about some of the rumours around this, which is full of subterfuge and all sorts of unknowns. If a person is approached by anyone claiming to have medical or other relevant data, we will provide a crime-line type confidential system where the person can get safe advice on what he or she needs to do. The Government Information Service will provide details on this later on. That advice line will also help to give us information on the information being published. I will come back to the issue if there are further questions.

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Sitting date: 2021-05-20