Mr. Colin Larkin:

I want to touch on the gathering of information from telecoms networks because it is my expert area and I have worked in the sector for many years. Telecoms networks are very diverse systems and information is scattered all over the place. The social networks can make it quite easy to gather information. There is a possibility of having an abuse button on a webpage that catches the information and dumps it in a central database with a case ID of some sort. Once I have a case ID I can prove to the garda that I am the person who is referred to in a message and it is my account in the same way that I can make a complaint if I receive an abusive message on my mobile telephone. I can easily get that information made available to me by the press of a button. Such a provision would take the need to do so away from the Garda and Facebook. I could then go along to my local solicitor and build a case using a case ID. The process would be straightforward.