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The Member is living in a parallel universe. We explained clearly that it did not matter whether it had been an 82% reduction in carbon emissions or 100% net zero; the fact is that, typically, the Departments did not consult each other or follow due process. Does the Member even know where west of the Bann is? He does…
My thoughts are with the families and those who have lost loved ones. They continue to be let down by the political fallout from net zero, which now puts all future infrastructure projects in Northern Ireland at risk. The A5 motion is a strange one for the "constructive Opposition" to table on its first Opposition day…
Communities and families across the north-west have been told time and again that the A5 scheme will be delivered, that it will transform connectivity, that it will unlock economic potential and, crucially, that it will make a dangerous stretch of road safer for all who use it, yet here we are, years on, with not a…
As the Minister outlined in his response to his colleague, that type of error is mercifully rare, or at least reports of that type of error are, but it clearly does happen. Will the incident perhaps inform a more lenient approach from the Department in instances in which people claim not to have received…
Minister, you have answered the question that I was going to ask, but, since you have been talking, I have become very concerned. You cannot say that somebody will not be harmed by an information leak if they do not know about it. From my understanding from the Information Commissioner's Office, the information that…
Will the Minister advise how many instances like this happen in a year? Can he help to contextualise it as regards the total correspondence that his Department sends by post?
Thank you, Minister. I am sure that this was a really distressing time, particularly for the people whose information was leaked. Official error overpayments on universal credit rose by 31% last year. Will you commit to publishing open, transparent error data, given that this was individual error?
I thank the Minister for that explanation and his reference to having taken steps to ensure that no further such occurrence might take place. The Minister has answered that part of the question. What communication have his officials had with people whose data was leaked, in order to reassure them?
First, I fully acknowledge that even one incident in which personal data is compromised is unacceptable and can have a serious impact on the individuals involved. In this case, investigations by my officials have determined that the breach was due to human error. It has been established that, in this instance, checks…
Minister, you said that the issue arose when the trust was initiating an update to its IT system. I am not an IT expert, but I imagine that that might be a fairly regular occurrence, not just in the Southern Trust but across the trusts. You talked a wee bit about lessons to be learned by other trusts: is there concern…
I agree with the comment made by my colleague Diane Dodds on the catastrophic element of the outage. As we move to digitisation of public services, things suffer difficulties. This is not just being unable to book your MOT; this is life and death and access to healthcare systems. When the incident happened, the…
Many more people are getting a health service that relies on that key IT facility to help them to deliver it. When it collapses, it creates the difficulties and problems. There were suggestions that there were difficulties in another trust area, with people not being able to log on the week before. Is it not the case…
Minister, I welcome the fact that it seems that the trust responded at pace and that it was able to draw on technical expertise from other corners of Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland. Does the Minister agree that the trust should leave no opportunity unutilised in booking in patients as quickly as…
Minister, it was a pretty catastrophic event, given that the main system and the backup system went wrong, with fairly difficult outworkings. I have been approached by constituents who were in Craigavon Area Hospital on the night of Monday 8 September. They indicated that, on that night, there was also an IT system…
Minister, the IT outage was hugely distressing for patients who have been waiting for, in some instances, a very long time and those who have been red-flagged for cancer and other issues. Will there be a coordinated regional response to the disruption? Will other trusts play any role in rescheduling the appointments…
The incident lasted over two days because there had to be a great level of concern that rebooting the system, if I may use that phrase, too quickly could have led to a further collapse in the system. That is why it was brought on gradually with those priority areas, which, as I said, were the labs, emergency…
Thank you, Minister, for the written statement that we received, but, as with what we have heard today, that statement does not give us an understanding of why everything had to be cancelled on 18 September, given that the system was back up and running on 17 September by 5.00 pm. I appreciate that the Minister said…
In accordance with my written ministerial statement of 19 September, I reiterate that the Southern Health and Social Care Trust experienced an operational IT outage on the morning of 17 September. The issue was isolated to the Southern Trust, but, of course, it impacted across its sites. There is no suggestion that it…