John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the total spend by his Department and the agencies under his remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51171/22]

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the proportion of his Department’s IT data that is stored in the cloud; the proportion of the data held by all agencies and subsidiaries of his Department in the cloud; if this represents an improvement; if so, the development that has been made towards cloud storage since 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51195/22]

Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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A large proportion of the data held by my Department is currently stored on equipment owned and controlled by my Department.  Data is stored on external cloud services where there are good business reasons for doing so, principally to allow easier sharing of that data with other parties.   In 2020, my Department purchased Microsoft 365 licenses to allow cloud collaboration for staff utilising software such as Office, OneDrive, Teams and Sharepoint in the cloud. Currently we have 6.1K files (95 Gigabytes) stored in OneDrive and 4.4K files (15.1 Gigabytes) stored in Sharepoint online. The Department also utilises ESRI's web-based mapping software ArcGIS Online (AGOL) to partially store data in the cloud on ArcGIS Online, a cloud based WebGIS instance by way of hosted services of DECC and GSI collectively.  DECC data is stored on a US Data Cloud Store (dcenr.maps.arcgis.com); GSI data is on European Cloud Store (geodata-gov-ie.maps.arcgis.com/). Collectively for these two instances there is 40GB of data stored on Cloud Storage. There is no personal or sensitive information contained within these servers. All other data is stored and maintained on Departmental SAN (Storage Area Network) storage.

As the economic, security and governance issues associated with cloud storage evolve, my Department will continue to evaluate the relative merits of cloud and on-premises storage of data when making data storage decisions.

Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party)
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176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in addition to the Climate Action Plans if his Department will publish a long-term climate action plan which focuses on post-2030 targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51214/22]