Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for being here and our members who participated. I thank them for all the work they are doing. It is crucial, in all our lives. There are days when I chair in the Seanad and sometimes there are debates complaining about data centres but I look down and every person in the room, except myself, is on his or her phone. We are all dependent on cyber, data and access to the Internet all the time, and probably more than we should be. That is the way of the world and I do not see it being reversed. What the witnesses do is becoming more important every day.

I thank Dr. Browne and his colleagues, Mr. Stephens and Ms Woods, for coming before the committee today to discuss this important matter.