Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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20. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied that Tusla is sufficiently protected against the recent cyber-attack. [28632/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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I want to start by acknowledging that the past weeks have been significantly challenging for the Agency and all its committed staff, particularly coming as it does following on from the crisis associated with the Covid-19 pandemic.

I have absolute faith in the abilities of the crisis management team chaired by CEO, the technical incident room chaired by Director of ICT and the significant expertise in security and associated matters that have been deployed, to make the key management decisions required with this incident and address the impact of the HSE cyber attack on Tusla's systems and service provision.

I must stress that this is an evolving situation. It is too early or perhaps impossible to be absolute about protections against the attack in the context of the criminal activity underpinning it. I am satisfied however that the Agency's risk management approach has identified the relevant risks associated with the attack and is putting in place the appropriate mitigating actions. I am also satisfied that the full resources of the State are being deployed to protect the Agency, and more importantly, the sensitive and personal information of service users associated with the Agency's files and data systems.