John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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369. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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. [51173/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department’s Digital Transformation Strategy 2022-2025 has a central focus on strengthening the security of all our information and communications technology (ICT) systems. Our cyber security approach is multi-dimensional and in line with the advice of the National Cyber Security Centre, with whom we have a deep partnership.

The expenditure on cyber security defence is integrated within overall ICT costs. Details of total expenditure on ICT for the years 2019 - 2021 are as follows:

2019€12,011,065

2020€12,858,109

2021€13,609,894

Outlay for 2022 will be available later this year, following end of year payments and rebalancing of figures between votes. We will forward that information to the Deputy in due course.

John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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370. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade 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. [51197/22]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Cloud migration is an important feature of my Department’s Digital Transformation Strategy. My Department substantially avails of ‘build to share’ services delivered by the OGCIO Government cloud. Only a very small number of systems are delivered using a cloud platform..

There are no agencies or subsidiaries under the remit of my Department.