Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I was very much reflecting on this. The cybersecurity attack on the HSE in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic was a very serious one that had a very severe impact on our health service and caused enormous strain and stress among senior personnel and those at the clinical front line who do scanning. It was interesting that the Polish Government contacted us immediately, as did the UK Government. Poland had a similar experience of the ransomware group Conti, which was deemed to be responsible for the attack, and the UK was available to assist us. The head of the National Cyber Security Centre in Ireland said when I met representatives of the group that no country deals with cybersecurity on its own. It is about the sharing of knowledge and expertise and collaborating on the experiences of those who were attacked before. It is by collaborating in putting together all the information that we stand the best chance of taking on state actors who may be doing cyber attacks, ransomware groups or hacktivists.

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