Dr. Richard Browne:

I thank the Deputy. In simple terms, yes. That is the answer to all of those questions. We deal extensively, as we have for many years, with various different parts of the Garda and of the Defence Forces at both a senior management level and working level. We have strong information-sharing relationships across all those organisations and these are in various ways that are required to meet particular needs at different parts of those organisations.

On the Government task force and emergency planning, we are a lead Government agency in respect of cybersafety, so we are the State's cyber emergency response planning entity. We have a national cyber emergency plan, which has been exercised twice in recent years and hopefully will be published in the next while in the present draft. That document is not a simple one in many ways, given the complexity of cybersecurity. It impinges on literally every part of society at the moment. It is very important to point out that the GTF process, the Government task force and emergency planning process and the SEM, that is, the strategic emergency management process that sits under that, gives us a whole-of-government template for its response. It is very rare that we would have a cyber incident that is just a cyber incident. It will be a cybersecurity incident in healthcare or in drinking water supply or in something else. We have to work with another entity to help manage an incident in its area. The GTF process gives us the framework to do that in a very open, transparent way, together with the facility to do it.