Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Foreign Affairs Council and Priorities for 2023: Minister for Foreign Affairs
Gerard Craughwell (Independent)
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The Minister has put the neutrality issue in perspective here today. These are days of worrying about land wars, tanks and guns, and whatever else. We are living in a whole new world. Some 75% of our small and medium enterprises, SMEs, have been hit by cyberattacks and that is right across the European Union. There is a whole new world out there and neutrality is too simple a word to encompass the challenges ahead for aligning on different issues. Certainly, in cyberspace, we have no choice but to align with like-minded countries against a common enemy.