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

We obviously need an infrastructure to be able to make a determination with regard to the threats that we face. Again, we are talking about hybrid and cyberthreats, and we are talking right down to what was mentioned earlier with regard to the plague that is organised drug crime in the State.

We are also dealing with the fact that we have a genocidal slaughter in Gaza and the escalation there. We have had the effect of the brutal Russian aggression in Ukraine. Obviously, we still need our own independent foreign policy but we must have that infrastructure to allow us to mesh everything together: the NCSC, the Defence Forces, An Garda Síochána and everything else. In this way we can see what the threats are and lay out our approach to dealing with them.

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