Duncan Smith (Dublin Fingal, Labour) | Oireachtas source

There is a broader point here separate from what has been made in terms of how systems are being backed up when we are talking about data centres. I am not hung up on the fact the data centre is located here, in the UK or wherever else, as long as it is secure. What happened, based on the answers we have been given, seems to have been a unique, unlucky event. There are two separate sites and that is the resilience that is best practice, as described by the witnesses. It is very unlucky that this happened. In essence, the wider issue is we have large companies like Aer Lingus and thousands more across the country that use two data centres to back up their cloud systems. That is what we, as customers, expect. We do not link it with climate change, energy usage and energy security. I apologise to the witnesses as I am going off the point. This is not related to-----