Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We saw in Belarus where Lukashenko was moving people as well. That was effectively a new one.

In our discussion on neutrality and common defence, addressing the cyber threat will have to play a big role. We will have to get real about that. We could probably achieve a lot more by co-operating with other countries. We could learn form them and work together but that will all have to be part of the debate on neutrality because cyber-warfare is warfare, just in a different form from that which we know warfare to be traditionally.