Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. John O'Driscoll:

The developments in technology and the capacity of our cybercrime bureau to interrogate modern technology is a challenge into the future. We can plug into entities such as the EC3 unit in Europol. In the course of my conversations with the head of that centre, Steven Wilson, in recent days, he offered us the use of particular equipment from that unit if we needed it. It is something that we do not have in this jurisdiction and indeed that the majority of countries do not have. Particularly where abuse of children is being conducted live in another jurisdiction, trying to get at the culprits is very difficult and can only be addressed through international co-operation.

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