Mr. Simon Milner:

Picking up on that, effectively, as Ms Cartes explained, we do support organisations, sometimes financially. Where there is an alignment of interests around a particular campaign, we will provide financial support to those organisations. We are a member of different organisations, including ISPAI, where we, along with other companies in Ireland, pay our subscription, and that contributes to the work of the hotline. We have similar relationships with safety organisations across the world, including elsewhere in Europe. It is something that we do. It is always about alignment and finding organisations where, by working together, one can have more impact for people in those particular countries.

I sympathise with Deputy Ann Phelan's concerns about how much of people's lives they put online and how much they share. Certainly, sometimes one sees things and one thinks, "Did you really mean to share that?" However, I often come across people who are my age who tell me there are two reasons they do not use Facebook. One is because everything they do will be online and the other is that everybody will be able to see it. Neither is true. It is up to you as to what you share. If you want to share where you are today, if you want to check-in to a particular location, you can choose to do it. It is up to you as to how much of your information you want to share. Then one can also control the audience for that. You can do it, not only on your account generally but on every specific piece of content that you post on Facebook. You can decide who can see it. You can even decide just to keep it to yourself and keep it almost as a running diary of what you have been up to over the course of the week, and nobody else can see it but you.

One of the things that we want to do - this hearing is a fantastic further opportunity to do that - is to let people know that the information is all there on the site. We provide many resources. When people sign up, there is a good deal of information that helps them understand that. As with most matters, and we learn this from experience, one learns by doing. When I talk to people, I say, "Have you used this service? Have you tried it? Have you used these different features?" Once people get the hang of it, they realise it is very easy to control the visibility of what one is doing on Facebook.