Mr. Stefan Umit Uygur:

The Deputy asked about the models functioning in other countries. There are more than a few functioning countries, including Israel, the US and Russia. Their models are very well functioning and also very holistic. They are not focused solely on education and the different parts feed into each other. There is an ecosystem functioning from education to industry to public administration, with the different aspects working together.

As I mentioned in my statement, over the past six to eight months, working with Senator Craughwell, we drafted Cyber Security Vision for Ireland 2022, which sets out the common vision we are here to discuss. The proposal is similar to the Israeli and US models. We have recently been invited, along with Senator Craughwell, to Poland to talk about that vision and what we propose to develop and implement. Mr. Kelly is here representing the AMTCE, which is the industry part we are involving, alongside the academia part. Taking a public-private approach allows us to elaborate a prototype. We are proposing a functioning model similar to the Israeli model. Estonia, which is one of the countries that is quite well prepared and advanced from a cybersecurity perspective, is applying a very similar model. In the past two decades of my career, I have worked with all of these nations, including Israel , the US and UK. I assisted and played a part in developing this model. It is what I would recommend.