Brian Stanley (Laois, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Ms Sweeney has identified this matter as a gap and highlighted how some staff were upset after seeing all of this. She has said that Facebook will leave up stuff at times in certain circumstances to help identify the people who are involved in unlawful activity and stuff like that. Surely the image of a child being abused being left available for viewing on a platform for six years indicates that there were no procedures in place or that procedures were deliberately ignored. There is no explanation. Were procedures in place? Even if a person was half asleep in the corner, he or she would have noticed such things happening. Never mind the fact that Facebook is supposed to have thousands of people working on this matter, Ms Sweeney's comments do not explain how this happened.