Mr. Kealan McMoreland:

I mentioned the lead Government Department model. We identify risks but also identify 50 different emergency types in our policy. For each, we assign a lead Government Department. For all of those 50 emergencies and the 22 key risks, we assign a risk owner. Of all of the Departments, there are eight lead Government Departments. We have responsibility as they ramp up planning preparedness. If they prepare emergency plans, we provide some subject matter expertise to them as a lead Government Department. They are the sectoral and policy experts for electricity emergencies and cyber crises, for example, but we provide them with guidance in respect of how to prepare their overarching plans. When it is time to exercise those plans, we provide the National Emergency Co-ordination Group but also guidance and advice in relation to the emergency exercises to ensure they encompass a whole-of-government approach. If one is preparing a national electricity exercise, sometimes one can be just focused on the electricity aspects whereas when we come together as the National Emergency Co-ordination Group, we need to think about social protection, education, transport and all of the cross-sectoral issues the electricity outage will cause. We make sure they are built into the exercises. That is the type of peer support we offer.