Ms Niamh Sweeney:

I am not surprised by that because many young people are engaged in gaming online where they would end up competing with a person they would not necessarily know but who is very good at a particular game, or there are many LGBTQ support groups. Organisations would have online fora where people who have yet to come out can engage with each other. Those are the good ways it can happen but, obviously, there are many bad ways as well. That speaks to the Government's action plan around education and having a central resource where all information can be accessed on how to avail safely of the opportunities presented by the Internet while also protecting oneself and being aware of the risks of being online.

Deputy Eamon Ryan raised many questions. Regarding his question on the referendum data, I have engaged with the Geary Institute. I had a long conversation with Diane Payne from the Geary Institute last week. We spoke for an hour and she followed that up with an email, to which I have not yet responded because I was preparing for this meeting.

I will follow up with her on that issue, but because of the time of year, it will probably be the end of August before we can get going on it in earnest.

The Geary Institute has not yet agreed to work with us. It probably has other things it would like to do with us that I am not in a position to promise just yet, but I will continue the conversation with Ms Diane Payne today.

The age question was addressed.

I do not know what the figure is for the turnover of staff, but I can check. I am not sure if I will be able to tell members afterwards, but I do know that across all of our outsourced centres, the rate of pay is 20% above the minimum wage in every jurisdiction. It is my understanding the rate of pay for entry level jobs in Ireland is somewhere above the average industrial wage, but our staff also benefit from full health insurance and all of the perks that go with being in a normal Facebook office, which include three meals a day and all of the other resources made available to us on site.

I do not know the answer to the question about the number of cases before the courts. In the cases in which members will have seen a prosecution brought for defamation on our platform or somewhere else online, the way it works is that the defamed person takes a case against the defamer. If the identity of the defamer is not obvious, the court system can be used to compel us to give the true identity of the person if they are not using their real name. It is important to state it is not the case that our hand has to be forced, but there are legal reasons we cannot disclose somebody's identity, other than what they have revealed online, without the legitimacy of a court order. We are usually caught in the middle, but the person who has been defamed takes up the matter with the person who has defamed them and we work with the courts to provide information, as required.

There are cases in which we have not moved quickly enough to remove material. I do not know the number of such cases.