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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 1222 asked in the Legislative Council on 16 December 2021 by Hon Peter Collier

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

FIONA STANLEY HOSPITAL — ICT SHUTDOWN

1222. Hon PETER COLLIER to the minister representing the Minister for Health:

I refer the minister to the shutdown of the IT system at Fiona Stanley Hospital on or about 16 November 2021.

(1) Was the shutdown a result of a firewall failure as reported?

(2) If no to (1), what was the cause of the shutdown?

(3) What has been done to prevent such an outage into the future?

Hon MATTHEW SWINBOURN replied:

On behalf of the minister representing the Minister for Health, I thank the member for some notice of the question. I provide the following response based on the information provided to me by the Minister for Health.

(1) No.

(2) The cause of the shutdown was a software defect within a core ICT network infrastructure switch.

(3) Based on vendor advice, following considerable analysis of the problem, a software upgrade was applied to the core ICT network infrastructure switch. Monitoring of the equipment is continuing and the system has been stable since the upgrade.