Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour)
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On our interaction with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, a number of points were made, one of which relates to the state obligation in some jurisdictions for a minimum investment of their ICT budget in cybersecurity. In Germany, for public bodies, the figure is 15%. Does the Minister of State envisage that should be replicated, whereby all state agencies would have a mandatory percentage of their ICT budget allocated to cybersecurity, particularly in light of our experience with the attack on the HSE?

On the other point made, which the Minister of State touched on in response to Deputy Ó Murchú, relating to the reliability of software providers to build in security ab initio, as opposed to having to bolt on solutions subsequently, where exactly is the European Union discussion in that regard and what does the Minister of State envisage emerging?