Mr. Mark Griffin:

I thank the Deputy for her comments on her engagement with the Department. I will make a couple of points on cyber and then on carbon emissions I will hand over to Mr. Frank Maughan who is the Department's principal officer in that particular area and has a good feel for it.

On the funding and capacity of the cybersecurity centre, we will complete that review in 2021. From a Government perspective, once we know what the need and the ask is - and at the risk of being proven wrong by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform later in the year as part of the Estimates process - I am quite comfortable that there is an appreciation within Government of the criticality of resourcing this, whether through money or staff, because this is something that the State cannot afford to get wrong. We need to be fully fighting fit on this particular issue. On the health sector, we mentioned operators of essential services earlier and the health sector and the major hospitals are constituents, they are one of the 67 designated. They do get a level of support from our Department and obviously they have their own capacity through the HSE and perhaps within the individual hospitals themselves.

As for what we have been doing during the pandemic, we have been issuing advisories to the HSE and the individual platforms-----