Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)
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52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of full-time staff working in the National Cyber Security Centre as of 1 January 2021 and 20 September 2022, in tabular form. [46836/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), located within my Department, plays an important role in providing advice and guidance to public bodies and critical infrastructure, monitoring and analysing cyber security threats and co-ordinating the response to major cyber security incidents.The NCSC is composed of highly skilled, specialist technical civilian staff, with skillsets in areas such as computer science, software engineering, malware analysis, information technology forensics, cryptography, software development, and cyber security compliance, as well as general cyber security skills.

The current levels of staffing are contained in the table below:

The Government has agreed the overall full-time staffing complement of the NCSC will be increased to 45 by the end of this year and to at least 70 over the next 5 years.