Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. John O'Driscoll:

This area needs co-operation between all interested parties that have an input. If this creation improves the co-ordination, we will certainly play our part. I have been involved in many areas in the past, including human trafficking and prior to that drugs. As with many areas, often at an early stage of development we put too much effort into the policy end of it. When that went off somewhere else and other people were dealing with other aspects and leaving it to us to deal with the law enforcement, it was a better arrangement. It would be better to leave the enforcement and investigation to the Garda national protective services bureau and the examination of computer equipment to the Garda national cybercrime bureau.