Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The National Cyber Security Centre is our main centre for dealing with cybersecurity from a national perspective. Our military contributes to and attends. The primary role of the Defence Forces with regard to cybersecurity relates to our own defence and security networks and systems. They participate under the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications through the National Cyber Security Centre. It is a whole-of-government challenge and has to remain so with every Government Department involved through the National Cyber Security Centre.

It is difficult to get specific figures because there is pay, along with people who contribute and attend. We also have military people present in Estonia at the NATO Cyber Security Centre. It is not a NATO centre but it is called that. That is a multinational approach to understanding the dangers and threats to cybersecurity. I went there two years ago to see it. It was interesting that the planning was, "What happens if your water utilities are attacked? What is the scenario planning? How do you respond to it?" We need to build up our expertise very significantly in that.

With An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces and the National Security Analysis Centre, we all work together and we have to work together on this.