Mr. Paul C. Dwyer:

Members of the Garda Síochána can obviously speak for themselves. However, they can go to a mobile telephone or Internet provider and seek records to tell them what has happened.

Then it is up to a civilian and that is where the matter gets murky. Should civilians take the information? Are there privacy issues? Should a mechanism be put in place?

With regard to cyber-scum in Ireland, Interpol has a database of known and categorised child pornography. In the mid-1990s it contained only 4,000 images but now it has over 1 million images. In this jurisdiction it can be downloaded and one will not be blocked from downloading it. If one travels to Northern Ireland or the UK then one cannot download it because it will be blocked and is inaccessible. In this jurisdiction the downloading of copyright music is banned but one cannot be blocked or stopped from downloading child pornography that is known and has been categorised as such by Interpol. That makes me question how we protect our children online.