Mr. Pat Larkin:

We need to make it a national economic and security priority. We need to co-ordinate it and think really big. We need to ring-fence a significant amount of money to enhance our national security. This should cover everything from Joe Citizen to every Department to every commercial organisation and NGO. We need to have a strategic approach to the dual strand of securing our national security and our national digital realm. Simultaneously, we need to capture the opportunity. I refer to the Israeli model and the Estonian model. There is naked collaboration. I am a former member of the Defence Forces. I was bilateral missions within Israelis forces. The hand-in-glove relationship between the Israeli Government and commercialising its output is incredible. We will have a unique value proposition in Ireland if we build the same collaborative relationship. In states where there are large military-industrial complexes and national security agendas, there is always a suspicion of national security interference in the technologies and products originating from those states. There is no such military-industrial complex or national security agenda in Ireland. As a result, anything we produce here is unquestionably pure and will contain no backdoors. We have a trust-----