Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The phenomenon we are discussing has been around since the mid or late 1970s but it is the acquisition of critical mass over the past five or six years that has so accelerated the phenomenon with which we are attempting to tussle. It is reasonable to say that best practice will evolve because the pressures being experienced in this jurisdiction are being experienced around the world. Best practice will evolve. It is a question of all the stakeholders being involved. The parents have a critical role because it is true that in some cases they do not know but they ought to do their best and attempt to know the sites to which their children are signing up and so on.