Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There were, and I am trying to remember how even a few weeks ago, there was a significant attack on some of the Government networks - during the local and European elections, as I recall. It was mostly commercial, it would seem, and similar to what we saw in the attack on the HSE or the Munster Technological University about a year or two ago, if members recall. A lot of it is still ransom attacks and the use of malware to look for extortion. There are ongoing attacks on a daily or weekly basis so that is why we need the National Cyber Security Centre to be so well-resourced and vigilant.