Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment

9:00 am

Mr. Mark Griffin:

Yes, I am the man, technically, who is responsible for making sure the State has an adequate cybersecurity capacity, both in prevention and response. We set the policy, although in fairness a lot of the policy is derived at European Union level, in particular, from the network and information security directive, which will put very significant obligations on critical infrastructure providers, namely, the energy companies and transport, and on the digital service providers, namely, the cloud computer providers such as Amazon, eBay, Google and so on. We spent a lot of money in the past few years, particularly the last two years, on beefing-----

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