John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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315. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total spend by her Department and the agencies under her remit on cybersecurity measures since 2019 to date in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51182/22]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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For reasons of operational and national security it would not be appropriate to disclose details, including costs, of my Department’s cyber security arrangements, or those of State Agencies under my remit.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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316. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the proportion of her Department’s IT data that is stored in the cloud; the proportion of the data held by all agencies and subsidiaries of her 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 she will make a statement on the matter. [51206/22]

Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party)
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For operational and security reasons, we are advised by the NCSC not to disclose details of systems and processes which could in any way compromise those efforts.Therefore, it is not considered appropriate to disclose particular arrangements in place in relation to cloud computing and services.