Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

One of the things that has been obvious, and that has been mentioned in this committee and in the Chamber, is the different bodies that have responsibility. There is the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau and the Communications and Information Services, CIS, Corps. Maybe Dr. Browne could describe what interaction there is between those. Are those bodies, in particular the Garda bureau, represented on and embedded within the NCSC?

One of the areas that strikes me is that we have an office of procurement and we have various other offices where making the wrong decision could effectively make Dr. Browne's job much harder. Is there liaison between the NCSC and Government procurement bodies, particularly around IT systems?

On a final point with regard to this part of the question, the HSE attack has been very well rehearsed and discussed in public fora. I do not expect Dr. Browne to name them or point them out, but are there other public bodies that he would have a concern about in terms of vulnerabilities to a similar type of attack at this point?