Mr. Karl O'Leary:

It is secure access anywhere at any time. As a technology company, we have become the custodians of data. The innovation will be delivered through lots of SMEs. In Ireland we have 40,000 partners who are involved in delivering jobs and creating skills. They must have the confidence in us that our data centres host their solutions securely. As for the Government, it must lead the way in cloud, it must show we have the highest level of cybersecurity policy that is not a barrier to a person adopting the cloud, but makes that person feel secure. People will be able to change to the latest iPhone when they are ready and they will not lose any data; it will be secure and they will be able to interact with those people they were interacting with before they changed device.

In 20 years, everyone will be accessing on multiple mobile devices what they do at work and at home but in that one secure environment. As Deputy Collins mentioned, she wants to come into this physical environment to see what she has to do there but when she goes home she can use the same device to do something else. People just want to know that is secure. Constituents want to know that when Members are looking at something for them, the device it is being done on is secure. That is the cloud challenge: to address the security concern because that is the barrier to us all adopting the cloud at a greater rate.