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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: The area is urban at this point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I will move to Senator Craughwell of the Independent Group. He has approximately seven minutes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: On that point, will the Department bring in experts in recruiting people for cybersecurity roles to assist in the recruitment process? It is such a specialised post. While the Public Appointments Service does its work well, for this particular role will the Department bring expertise in for the recruitment process?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I ask the Minister of State to be careful in his comments about any live legal case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: In the interests of consistency, I also ask the Senator to be guided by the fact it is a live legal case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Has the Minister of State concluding remarks in response to the Senator's questions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: I have a question. The first recommendation from the capacity review is to form a cross-government task force with representatives from the Taoiseach's office, the Minister of State's Department, the Departments of Defence, Justice and Foreign Affairs and other key Departments to develop an action plan for this report and sponsor its implementation. Has that task force been established?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Might I suggest that the Minister of State speaks to the consultants because they clearly do not appear to have been aware of it? They have put it as the first recommendation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the action plan in train?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: In terms of getting down to do the action plan for this report, that is something the task force will now take up. Am I correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Thank you. That is hugely important. I call Deputy James O'Connor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What is the breakdown between capital and current?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Deputy O'Connor has his own direction on this. I will just hand back to him to allow him to develop the point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: We have an executive summary of the redacted version of the FireEye capacity review. Would it be possible for the committee to get a copy of the full document, even if it also had to be redacted? We understand the confidentiality aspect. My second point is on a recurring theme here. We accept all the work done by the NCSC and the Minister of State, but we had an expert in here who said...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Only €2 million is current spending. It was stated that €50 million should be spent and, based on that, it should be 25 times the current level of operational expenditure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: Will the Minister of State do a body of work on that? Everything costs money. One can speak about it, but, ultimately, it is taxpayer's money and we want to put it to good use. If the Minister of State does a body of work on what is being done by all public bodies, then maybe when we come back again, we will look at that aspect. Will the Minister of State be forthcoming with the full...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: The point was on the process whereby there would be a direction with all Departments about investing in cybersecurity. I would add that the Estimates process is ongoing. The Minister of State is at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform as well as the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. I would have thought it would have been relatively straightforward to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Estimates process could be a way of capturing that data. It is something the Minister of State might take on board, even at this stage. He could instruct Departments to include cybersecurity spending within their Estimates when they come to his Department. I call Deputy Ó Murchú.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: What about Sensor?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cyber Security Centre Review: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)
Kieran O'Donnell: The Minister of State must be brief.