Ms Noeline Blackwell:

The focus of the centre has principally been on the fact that it is so hard to actually find an accountability mechanism, let alone legal aid. The fact that there is not a sufficient criminal framework means that even reporting complaints to the Garda is difficult. That is true for the once-off sharing of an image by an intimate partner, or former intimate partner, of a person. That image may have been taken consensually but is shared non-consensually or was taken non-consensually. There are also cases where the harassment is so-called upskirting or the covert taking of images. Those issues cannot even be reported to the Garda, let alone brought to a stage where somebody is in a position to bring a civil suit on privacy grounds.

Legal aid and the lack of law is in some ways the most significant problem we see, if that makes sense.