The primary function of any State is to provide for the security of its citizens. In this State, we are woefully neglecting our citizens. Dan O'Brien has a piece concerning the spend on defence in this country. We are lowest-spending country in Europe on national defence. There is no national security strategy. It was promised in 2019 but it is now becoming a bit like Trump and Obamacare, where every week it is a case of "the last paragraph is currently being drafted and it'll be out any day soon".

We were already hit with the HSE cyberattack. Cyberattacks are happening in their thousands every day. Every minute and every nanosecond, there is an attack on somebody in this country. There is no national security strategy. The national security strategy would lay out how we would deal with such issues as water, the transmission of electricity, gas, transport, etc. It would prioritise which things have to be saved in the event of a crisis and which things can be set aside or dealt with at a later date. Nothing has ever been said. We have a national crisis team that meets every now and then when there is a national crisis but it has no blueprint to work on. There is no strategy.

I ask that we bring the Minister for Defence to the House and have an open conversation about a national security strategy. It is not always about people in uniform. It is not always about people in the Defence Forces or An Garda Síochána. It is about people working in electricity or gas transmission systems. It is about anything that makes this country work. Will the Minister for Defence come to the House to discuss the national strategy?