Mr. Richard Browne:

Exactly. To put this in very simple terms, cybersecurity was being treated as a peripheral issue, something that happened in its own space. In 2017, it became part of the central focus of security in the same way as other organs of the State that deal with security are.

Another aspect to keep in mind is that in the interim we found that having secondees in with us from the Garda and the Defence Forces dealt with oversight issues in a very efficient way on a daily operational level. In addition, bilateral contacts with the An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces, and the Departments of Defence and Justice and Equality allowed us to have the operational response anyway.