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

I did not interrupt you. You do it all the time, of course. It is a tactic of yours which you learned from your former colleagues. It is a well worn campaigning tactic. The Deputy mentioned cybersecurity attacks as if it is the recipient of those attacks who is responsible for the expenditure. Come on; let us have some balance in the debate. I do not blame the HSE for the cyberattack. There may have been vulnerabilities and maybe we could have been stronger. I blame the Conti group who made that attack on the Irish people through a cyberattack on our entire health service in the middle of Covid. I do not blame public servants who worked extremely hard to deal with it in the interests of the Irish people for that. I do not blame the third level colleges that were vulnerable and that have been attacked by some of these criminal enterprises.

I blame the criminal enterprises. I do not blame a particular university that has been attacked via cyber means. These cyberattacks are attacking the private sector, the public sector and, since Russia's illegal invasion of Ukraine, cyberattacks have grown exponentially across Europe. They are connected. They are a form of hybrid warfare on those countries that may disagree with the manner and nature of that attack. It is wrong-----

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