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And so with that, let's start with the classiest ransomware gang out there, the gentlemen.

They hit in the past six days, AirQ, Axle Logistics, Campbell Raya, CAS Paper Mill, and Climeta, see, like I said, butchering these things, Engineers Ireland, Entry Systems, Garage Doors and Gates, Europe, Assistant South Africa, First Dental Health, Geodental and Med Spa, Inovar Packaging Group, Janet, Janet and Suggs, MAP Switzerland, Martin LLP, Museum Siam, Netcore UNBXD, New Porch Beach Dentistry, Pantanal Argicola, Petroleum Telecom Communications, Regio Nord, Saga University, Santa Barbara Endodontics, SBI Audiovisual, Service Master of Ottawa, Shared Medical Technology, Skin Center, Sladek and Partners, Songwu Industrial, St. Peter's College, Suhai, Serjunanka, Pesawola, again, Tai Ha, Universidad de Paso Fundo, and Wellington College International School in Bangkok.

The Keelan ransomware gang hit Via Credit Union, Brame Telecom, Chattanooga Shooting Supplies, Commune of Lee Tampon, Hocon Gas, Hypergen, KD Corporation, Keogh Corporation, Kemlos Diecasting Products, Sergis Systech, Shieldwall Systems of Florida, Telco Federal Credit Union, The Excalibur Group, MOA Architecture, Kampapa, Victoria, Milstein Family Law, The Golden Legacy Financing, Con Auto, ProDeal, Ringside Creative, Friendship Christian School, apparently the friendliest Christian school out there, Courix, Municipo de Rio Grande, and First Brothers Co.

The Lockbit Ransomware Gang, no slouch either, Grupo ABG, Courix, Kids Are Cool Pediatric Dentistry, Luxor Company for Water and Wastewater, New Era Machines, Torvicia, Donlin, Godot, and Rubin, Cord Hotels, and Sky CC.

So we meet regularly where We're members of a number of different committees, the likes of the National Focal Point Network, which again is health and safety related and it's looking at developments on the European Union level.

Then there's the Construction Safety Partnership Advisory Committee and that includes the likes of ourselves, Health and Safety Authority, SOLUS, Engineers Ireland, IBEC, and the list goes on, including trade unions as well.

And that really is looking, that's an advisory support and health and safety authority.

We also sit down on the construction industry advisory group, which is an advisory to SOLUS.

When I went for my interview, I can guarantee you.

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And so with that, let's start with the classiest ransomware gang out there, the gentlemen.

They hit in the past six days, AirQ, Axle Logistics, Campbell Rhea, CAS Paper Mill, Climeta, see, like I said, butchering these things, Engineers Ireland, Entry Systems, Garage Doors and Gates, Europe, Assistant South Africa, First Dental Health, Geodental and Med Spa, Inovar Packaging Group, Janet, Janet and Suggs, MAP Switzerland, Martin LLP, Museum Siam, Netcore UNBXD, New Porch Beach Dentistry, Pantanal Argicola, Petroleum Telecom Communications, Regio Nord, Saga University, Santa Barbara Endodontics, SBI Audiovisual, Service Master of Ottawa, Shared Medical Technology, Skin Center, Sladek and Partners, Songwu Industrial, St. Peter's College, Suhai, Surjunanka, Pesawola, again, Tai Ha, Universidad de Paso Fundo, and Wellington College International School in Bangkok.

The Keelan ransomware gang hit Via Credit Union, Brame Telecom, Chattanooga Shooting Supplies, Commune of Lee Tampon, Hocon Gas, Hypergen, KD Corporation, Keogh Corporation, Kemlos Diecasting Products, Sergis Systech, Shieldwall Systems of Florida, Telco Federal Credit Union, The Excalibur Group, MOA Architecture, Kampapa, Victoria, Milstein Family Law, The Golden Legacy Financing, Con Auto, ProDeal, Ringside Creative, Friendship Christian School, apparently the friendliest Christian school out there, Courix, Municipo de Rio Grande, and First Brothers Co.

The Lockbit Ransomware Gang, no slouch either, Grupo ABG, Courix, Kids Are Cool Pediatric Dentistry, Luxor Company for Water and Wastewater, New Era Machines, Torvicia, Donlin, Godot, and Rubin, Cord Hotels, and Sky CC.

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Next week, a major conference, uh, presented by Engineers Ireland will host the launch of Moonshot that will seek to make Ireland the world leader in digital health.

The man behind Mission 10X is Professor Martin Curley, Director of Digital Health Ecosystems at Maynooth University, and he's with me here at the RDS.

Martin, good morning and welcome.

Well, th-

Co-responsible if you're-

That's a terrific question, and this comes down to why Engineers Ireland and the Academy of Manu.

We're architecting, like, health systems have never been properly architectured or engineered, and at the core of this program, Mission DNX, is something that we call a SPINE, a Secure Patient Information Network Exchange.

Housing also remains a dominant issue, as we know.

The Director General of Engineers Ireland, Damien Owens, says many young professionals are doing everything expected of them, securing qualifications and jobs, but still can't afford to buy a home.

He warns more may choose to emigrate if affordability doesn't improve.

Parents want action on childcare costs and staffing shortages and creches, while single-parent families and those caring for children with disabilities are seeking more targeted support to cope with mounting expenses.

But coming back then to UCD, lecturing generations of engineering students, seeing them go out into the country and now the opportunities in the country being so fantastic for them, seeing what they've all achieved.

Being president of the Irish Research Council, being the president of Engineers Ireland, you know, being able to do all of these things, see from so many different perspectives how Ireland transformed itself, what we did.

And then for me now, the question as president of UCD is what next? What? How do we support Ireland into the next stage of its development? But also, of course, we're no longer a university that is just for and about Ireland.

Yes.