Ms Deirdre O'Keeffe:

I think the question is whether hotline.ie will have the resources to act on the reports that are made to it. At the moment we support hotline.ie. It is partly supported by the Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland and it receives part-funding from the EU safer Internet programme, for which the office for Internet safety is the co-ordinator in Ireland. We do not have any concerns about the level of service provided through hotline.ie at present. If hotline.ie were asked to take on an additional function, it would have to assess its resource needs and whether it could meet it. We support hotline.ie but it does its own business, so to speak.