Seán Kenny (Dublin North East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the delegation from RTE for appearing before the committee. My question relates to the tweet. It is unclear to me how RTE dealt with the tweet. Was it possible to trace its origin and the IP address from which it was sent? Technology is available to do so. The fact that the tweet was subsequently disowned is also something that needs to be examined.

The programme was interesting. It was a riveting programme to watch and we had not had anything like it before. The delegation talked about social media, its impact and how people can say things on social media that they could not say anywhere else. That raises all kinds of questions. How was the tweet traced? Was it possible to trace the IP address from which it was sent?