Gerard Craughwell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

The Minister has put the neutrality issue in perspective here today. These are days of worrying about land wars, tanks and guns, and whatever else. We are living in a whole new world. Some 75% of our small and medium enterprises, SMEs, have been hit by cyberattacks and that is right across the European Union. There is a whole new world out there and neutrality is too simple a word to encompass the challenges ahead for aligning on different issues. Certainly, in cyberspace, we have no choice but to align with like-minded countries against a common enemy.