Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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I will be brief. I wish to follow up on Senator Chambers's point on software providers. Mr. Lepassaar spoke about them having an obligation. We have a sense down the years, perhaps unfairly, that many operating system providers, in particular, not to name anyone, produced something rather badly and then worked on the basis that a company would pay to make sure it got the updates. Mr. Lepassaar spoke of the problem of using legacy technology. We are all aware of pre-Windows 10 operating systems that were used in the HSE. I have two questions. What would be a best cast scenario with respect to the obligation those providers should be under? Is there a difficulty if a sector is literally only using one operating system provider and would it need to build in some sort of redundancy? Could Mr. Lepassaar answer those question initially.