Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

We had a very good discussion with the European Commissioner responsible for this area and the then acting and recently appointed head of the National Cyber Security Centre, Richard Browne, at which I gave a very clear presentation on the lessons we had to learn. We did have lessons to learn. There were mistakes made and networks were not secure. Work has advanced on closing those loopholes, but it is important that we learn from that attack. I am confident that with the additional resources, the additional staff and the willingness to learn the lessons from that cyber attack, we will have a more secure network. No system can be completely fail-safe, but there were significant lessons that we needed to learn and have learned from that crippling event. I am confident those lessons will be learned.