Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Cybersecurity and Hybrid Threats Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Discussion
Dr. Richard Browne:
I will explain what that is. We have a critical national incident response plan. We have had it for some time and we update it. As part of our internal review of the HSE incident response process, we took that piece and identified exactly how we would operationalise it. That work is well under way now. Some aspects of it have been used in our contingency planning for ongoing issues. It is not finalised, because we are using it and operationalising it. It will be finalised once we have finished our contingency planning. Basically, we are learning from this as we are doing it. Also, and this goes to your point, Chairman, a lot of the learning from this is bringing other entities in and explaining to them what our role is and what their role will be in an incident. Then everybody has a much clearer understanding of roles, responsibilities and the incident response process and how it works in a live fire.
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