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

Implementation of the capacity review will primarily be a responsibility for our Department. I take its advice about what can be published. My instinct is to be as transparent as possible. The National Cyber Security Centre shares a substantial amount of information, often in a secure way, giving different levels of transparency depending on security implications, so we will follow the same approach in the publication of the capacity review.

The National Security Analysis Centre is involved with all of Government. The Department of the Taoiseach is centrally involved. It is an all-of-government co-ordinated response and approach. The Defence Forces have been mentioned. As the Deputy said, they have critical capabilities with regard to the protection of the Defence Forces' own networks. The crossover is evident in that much of the expertise that we have in such bodies as the National Cyber Security Centre are people who have come from the Defence Forces or been trained in that background. There is always crossover and back-and-forward. We are a small State with the capability of having people cross over between different agencies, so that exists in this case.

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