Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is critical and highly capable, but I would still argue that the key capability for the front-line defence is in the Departments. The NCSC has a key role in advising, helping and providing analysis, but I stand by the argument as I believe it is fundamentally true that the first line of defence is the various Departments and their resources. That is where we have to concentrate. In particular in the current instance, that is where most of the work is now taking place. It is the people who run our systems there who are now cleaning them out in the methodical way the Minister for Health set out. They are the heroes of what is happening at this present time. They are trying to get our system back up and running. They deserve our greatest help.

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