Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not sure I have complete confidence in waiting for the Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces to report on something like this before taking more concrete steps. This is a really serious issue. If there has ever been anything of a conflict zone with clearly defined borders it is gone. It has been confined to history, as is conflict between two opposing sides. We now have zones where there are multiple players, whether street gangs or organised gangs controlling food and water distribution in areas of conflict through cyber networks. This is something of which we need to be very mindful because as their capabilities increase we seem to be playing catch up all the time and this is just not good enough. I take what the Minister said earlier about national security. If we could skirt around this issue the Minister will take my question. Given the recent attack on the HSE, will the Minister and his Government partners commit to a full cyber risk assessment of all State infrastructure assets?

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