Mr. David McGill:

To answer the first part of that question, it absolutely depends on the size of the company. It also depends on the sector it is in. Essential entities are always medium or large scale, so smaller scale companies would not be disproportionately affected. There are some critical entities whose size does not matter, but generally it only applies to the larger ones. The rest of them would become smaller.

In respect of funding, grants are already available through the NCSC. It has a scheme in place. We have a new national cybersecurity strategy. We were looking at introducing more types of grant schemes in order to help support small and medium enterprises in particular to develop their cybersecurity infrastructure to raise the whole level of cybersecurity within the State to a more acceptable standard.