Ms Sinéad McSweeney:

It is part of the national Safer Internet Centre. There are three prongs to that. There is the government prong, the hot-line and it is within Childnet so there is a range of funding from government and other sources.

In terms of raising awareness, whether one is in politics or education and one is trying to introduce any type of public information, one can never share and publicise the information enough. We use our platform to publicise it. We also use conferences, seminars and our contacts with other organisations to constantly publicise the help, resources and advice that are available.

Deputy Mitchell O'Connor spoke about advice to parents. I have answered the question about the age at which a child is allowed on Twitter. The child must be over 13 years old. In addition, when they are signing up it is possible for any Twitter user to indicate that they do not wish to see certain material. There is a box one can tick to say one does not wish to see sensitive content. My advice to parents is to recognise that they have to know and understand the tools and channels that their children are using. We, as parents, do not have the luxury of saying: "It is too much, the whole thing has moved away too fast so I give up".

My son is four years old. He is already probably better on the iPhone and iPad than I am. I have the advantage of working for a social media company, so I know and understand it. However, I have to think of the future and wonder how the world will be when he reaches 13, 14 and 15 years of age. Last week, I signed up for an online coding course so that when he starts talking Java and HTML to me in a couple of years, I will know and understand what he is talking about. Hopefully, I will also be able to look over his shoulder and figure out whether he is designing a computer game or trying to hack into PULSE. As parents, we must-----