Ms Deirdre O'Keeffe:

To answer the question in a general sense and to repeat something the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, said, anything that is illegal offline is illegal online. If an illegal issue arises which needs to be dealt with, it is dealt with in the normal way if it happens in an online circumstance as much as it happened in an offline one. In a general sense, the Department of Justice and Equality has a role to play in that regard. Locating the office for Internet safety in the Department of Justice and Equality is an effort to ensure that whatever linkages are necessary, in terms of pursuing an illegal act, are dealt with. That is one of the reasons for locating the office in the Department of Justice and Equality.