Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have two more short points. At what level is international co-operation? How many of the attacks the NCSC is able to see are something that is reported to the centre from other jurisdictions or other parts of the world?

The other one is in regard to the availability of skilled staff with the necessary technological skills to work in the sector. Is that something we have in Ireland? When we walk around most of the parts of the country where we see the major corporations such as Google, Facebook and all of those, we see a lot of international people there. We see people from other countries who are obviously coming here to work because they have the skills. Are those skills available here? Will we need to see more people come from abroad to take up those skills? How much of that work can be done remotely? How much of that work is something whereby staff can work anywhere in the world to assess it and evaluate such threats and risks and report them back to the centre? While I ask that question, I also note that in his opening remarks Dr. Browne, mentioned the dangers of people working remotely and how doing that could be leaving a door slightly ajar.