Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not sure our backlogged court system will provide any solution, so I would hate it if anyone were to suggest that judicial review was the way to go. We know the issues with court services, which are insufficiently resourced.

Will the Minister of State go into some detail about the consultations he mentioned? All of this comes with the caveat of national security, which presumably allows for the gazumping of a large amount of oversight of the relevant information. I am jumping the gun in that regard, though, for want of a better term. Will the Minister of State provide details of what the consultation would look like in terms of the assessment of someone as a high-risk vendor and the carrying out of the nuclear option of removing the material from particular communications infrastructure?

While strategic autonomy is important in this day and age, I am led to believe that, if we were to take a particular vendor out of the equation in the morning, we would encounter technological difficulties and could end up dealing with companies that were not at the same technological level. Some of these components are being used because experts in the field believe they are the best in the business. If we are to go down this road, though, I want to know what the process will be, what conversations there have been across the EU about delivering along the supply chain, and what the story is with the information behind this provision. The only story that makes sense is that there are security questions. How much information would be before the House, in the public domain or wherever else? What is the possibility of there being oversight, consultation or whatever one wants to call it?

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