Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Yes, it is the security of the State. It is to avoid a situation where the critical infrastructure of the State presents a risk. For example, in the remote scenario that Ireland were to find itself at war with another country and that country had effective control over parts of our critical infrastructure, we might think twice about allowing vendors from that country to deploy remotely controllable software.