Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 October 2025
Committee on Defence and National Security
National Maritime Security Strategy: Department of Defence
2:00 am
Dr. Margaret Stanley:
From a cybersecurity perspective, the Department of justice has responsibility for the National Cyber Security Centre. Given the nature of some of the undersea infrastructure, it will be very important that there is co-ordination between the physical and cyber aspects of the security of this critical infrastructure. There is also the Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment because energy infrastructure is a vital area as well. If my arm was twisted for a third Department, then, the Department of Transport has responsibility for Dublin Port and this is a vital part of the critical maritime infrastructure of the State, given its importance from the point of view of imports into the country and so on. If I had to name Departments, then, I think those would be particularly important ones.