Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

EU Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

When Mr. Lepassaar spoke about the NIS review and NIS 2 and essential or critical service providers, he spoke of, not to put words in his mouth, a weakness in the sense that it does not take into account research, innovation or the third level sector. He spoke specifically about those who were involved in innovation around vaccines. I imagine he is proposing that it be revisited. He is obviously involved in those discussions around the worst case scenario. I accept some of that drifts into what people would term "defence", the fear of, say, cyber to physical attack, particularly in the set-up we have in Europe as regards the hybrid migration weapon being used by Lukashenko.

We are in a world where anything goes with regard to what weapon will be used by state or non-state actors in the future.

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