Mr. Joseph Stephens:

Building on what Dr. Browne has said, that model has been really successful in government and we have actively stopped a number of attacks by everyone working together. One person will see one aspect of a cybersecurity incident, which then can protect other people when they share that information. We are expanding it into multiple other sectors such as energy, telecommunications, health and education. We are also setting up a bespoke one for small and medium enterprises because of the issues both Deputies raised in terms of the imbalance there to try to help such businesses. There has been great value seen in this in Europe, which is co-funding this. It has given us 50% of the funding. It is a €3 million project and half of the money has been provided by the European Union. It kicked off at the start of this year and it is a three-year project, so by the end of the three years, it will be fully operational and will have a technical infrastructure to share cyber-indicators with one another, as well as a community where people know one another other and can build capacity within the sector. It has been highly successful so far and we probably will expand further at the end of the project.