Professor Brian MacCraith:

The current situation, given the location of our meetings and so on, is that it is separate from but sits on the Department’s framework. I agree with the Deputy that given the sensitivity of the issues and the independence of our approach, and so on, it would be sensible that whatever location we are in, we have an absolutely independent system with all of the best and most up-to-date approaches to cybersecurity. That makes sense. Obviously, we will be dealing with very sensitive matters so that is critically important.