Dr. Tijana Milosevic:

That proposal came from us. We would have to, of course, leave the administrative decision-making up to Government because it is not within our area of expertise. At the moment, companies normally voluntarily donate money to individual research groups, charities or organisations, but the idea is to institute that through the Government. What we propose, envisage or suggest could be part of the statutory duty of care which has been proposed in other legislation. The rationale for this is that we often see that infrastructural support for a child would be beneficial as part of an individual complaints scheme. For instance, we have Coco's Law within the Department of Justice, which relates to a young person, not a child, who was affected and did not receive adequate help. What happened to her was a series of online harassment cases. She was not getting adequate infrastructural support from the Garda, from the online companies or adequate counselling and psychological and educational help.

We are proposing the Government really thinks about supporting an infrastructure that involves education and counselling, so when this happens every individual child and parent knows where to go. This should be streamlined, rather than having a series of individual organisations that might not be working in tandem. It should be concertedly thought through how the infrastructure is unified, to ensure we know who people go to in order to get the help they need when this happens when they are not able to deal with an individual piece of content that, in cyberbullying cases, usually happens in tandem with what is going on offline. That is what we are proposing. The details and administrative part are outside my domain of expertise.