Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 December 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed)
9:30 am
Ms Niamh Sweeney:
I understand. As Ms de Bailliencourt highlighted, women receive more such abuse. Our difficulty is that people can curse online and use much vocabulary that others do not find palatable or polite. As I mentioned, we try to create controls. I am in a difficult position in terms of discussing the difficulties experienced by public figures as opposed to private individuals because the right to criticise Government policy is directly captured in the Constitution. People may not elevate that to a particularly erudite level.
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