Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I understand that it is a very fast-changing area. I appreciate the fact that Twitter is before us and I hope its representatives will come back again because we need to work together. However, I would have been more impressed if they had stated that the e-commerce directive was greatly outdated. It is the law at the moment and we are complying with it but, within that law, we are passive and there is no obligation on us to be proactive. None of our guests stated this. They seem to be saying they only have to act when it is brought to their attention. Few of them were even born at the time the directive was introduced.

Facebook has a proactive approach to teachers. It has a programme involving over 100 teachers and the first set of training sessions started in September. We are commencing something in response to the outrage. How many teachers are in Ireland and how many will take part?