Mr. Mark Griffin:

It was signed off in July but these processes take time. In the interim, we have appointed an acting director of the National Cyber Security Centre. He is a competent and able individual who has worked in this area since 2012 and worked in the Department in this area since its inception and was deputy director of the national security assessment centre in the Department of the Taoiseach. He is in place in an acting director capacity. It is important, when running competitions of this nature at a senior level, that the integrity of the process is protected.