Work 'ongoing' on delayed security strategy, insists Government

Last year's HSE cyberattack highlighted the need for an enhanced, better coordinated national security strategy.

The Government has said work is “ongoing” on its long-awaited National Security Strategy, citing Covid and international and domestic developments as reasons for the delay.

The strategy, the country’s first, was due to the published more than two years ago and was supposed to cover the period 2020-2025.