Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 September 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
Conference on the Future of Europe and Other Matters: European Movement Ireland
Ms Noelle O'Connell:
On the defence question, it is something we would have observed during our previous work around the country on the future of Europe process and now as part of the Conference on the Future of Europe. The dial has slowly shifted with people being more open to talking and engaging about it, pretty much across the board in terms of demographics, geography and gender. We cannot deny the impact the Russian invasion of Ukraine had on this. In the May poll, the fieldwork took place in and around the same time as the HSE cyberattack. That outlined how fragile we are. We are not an island in the cyber-digital world. It is something that we believe quite strongly we should look at. I will ask my colleague, Mr. O'Shea, to come in on that particular point.
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