Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

From drugs, human trafficking and cyberattacks, this country is seriously vulnerable with regard to security. A headline in the Irish Examinerstated today that Ireland is being used by cartels as a staging post for drugs sales in the country. Tonight, drugs will be consumed in pretty much nearly every second pub across the country. There is no doubt that they may be consumed in the walls of the Dáil and the Seanad as well.

There is a shocking trend emerging where the parents of people who run up drug debts are being targeted with violence and arson if they do not pay off those drug debts. Aontú councillor Jim Codd in Rosslare called for an investigation into unknown wealth among certain individuals, and he too was threatened when he spoke out publicly. How many personnel do we have working in the harbours across the country to stop drugs from entering the country?

On the issue of cybersecurity, there is a ludicrous situation where this country had a National Cyber Security Centre, which is operating out of no physical building, with no director and an annual budget less than the cost of running the PR for the Taoiseach's office. What has been the cost to the State of that cyberattack financially, and in human life?

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