Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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76. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress or otherwise in the implementation of the National Security Strategy. [60484/22]

Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Our national security is a priority concern and the Government is carrying out very substantial work in building and sustaining our security and resilience across sectors, including justice, defence, the economy, energy and cyber.

Work is ongoing in my Department in drawing up a national security strategy. While necessarily constrained by the COVID-19 pandemic, planning, consultation and analysis in preparing a draft strategy covering a broad range of issues has continued. Further work is ongoing to address more recent security and defence developments and their related impacts, including the pandemic, the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces and, of course, the very serious deterioration in the European security environment caused by Russia’s war against Ukraine and the related energy crisis.

In addition, cyber security and the evolution of hybrid threats have been a focus of recent work given the attack on the HSE last year and the nature of developments in the international security landscape.