Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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930. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the extent to which his Department has been impacted by the ransomware attack on the Department of Health; and if he will provide a list of the files and a description of the type of files which were due to be transferred from the Department of Health to his Department but have not yet been transferred. [30561/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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ICT services are provided to my Department by the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (OGCIO). The provision of ICT security is part of that service.

My ICT Staff engage closely with the OGCIO on the issue of cyber security, who in turn engage with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to ensure best practice is followed as it relates to all aspects of cyber security.

For operational and security reasons, the NCSC has advised not to disclose details of systems and processes which could in any way compromise those efforts. In particular, it is not considered appropriate to disclose information which might assist criminals to identify potential vulnerabilities in departmental cyber security arrangements. Therefore it is not considered appropriate to disclose particular arrangements in place in relation to cyber security tools and services and my Department does not comment on operational security matters.