Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that, but they define critical infrastructure as "whether physical or virtual, including energy, transport, water, health, communications, media, data processing, storage, aerospace, defence, electoral or financial infrastructure and sensitive facilities, as well as land and real estate crucial to the use of these infrastructure.".

That is only one of the elements. It seems an awful lot of investment could in some way encapsulate an element of that definition. Is the Minister of State envisaging a load of potential investments coming in but when the context is looked at with regard to investment in water, energy,transport or communications they are de factostruck off the list as they are not relevant to public order and security, or is he envisaging a relatively small number? If it is a small number, how would that initial screening happen?