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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Would that involve state organisations in America paying ransoms?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Does Mr. O'Reilly agree with the policy to not pay?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask Mr. Larkin to address why hackers went after our HSE and Department of Health systems now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Excellent.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: In his opening statement, Mr. Larkin stated that politically and socially, we need to move to a national defence mindset, with our national cybersecurity as one of the key pillars of our defence. What do we need to do differently? Mr. Larkin spoke about the terrible Covid-19 virus which has quietly been attacking the world. We are now facing this other form of a virus. What do we need to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Currently there is an annual budget of €5 million going into the national cybersecurity centre. Is that sufficient?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: That is ten times what we are spending at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have a brief question for Ms Carolan. She estimated that the salary for the vacant post of director of the National Cyber Security Centre should be in the order of €220,000 to €290,000, with benefits. It has been speculated in the media that the current salary for the post is around €89,000. Can Ms Carolan explain why she has recommended the salary of €220,000...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Deputy Ó Murchú asked Mr. Walsh about skill sets, the throughput of graduates and so forth.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I call Senator Horkan, who has seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (25 May 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: We will be following up on both of those matters. The capacity review is under way and we will consider the public-private element. We look on this as a body of work so we will obviously be coming back to this particular issue. The witnesses have been great.