Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence

Engagement with the National Cyber Security Centre

Dr. Richard Browne:

We have, as we would put it, a steady drumbeat of recruitment processes. We do not want to go with all our recruitment processes at the one time. We advertised for and filled a director of resilience earlier this year. That post has been filled. We have run and closed a new CSS competition, which was a bulk competition. There will be, as I said, 50, 60 or 70 people interviewed down to ten or 12 successful candidates, maybe 15. Who knows? It depends on the numbers. The CTO competition is scheduled for quarter 3, so the advertisement will go in the papers in quarter 3. It will be a public competition like all the rest of them and it will be filled by year end. These competitions are scheduled well in advance and they run on that basis. We also do not want to be going back to industry all the time and having the same people apply. We want to go back to the market as it refreshes itself.

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