Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I wish to return to a couple of matters. Deputy Griffin referred to one of them, namely, the fact that in recent times we have seen journalists being abused online and, as politicians, we are trolled and abused. There is the issue of false accounts. The online platforms have many procedures in place, but they are not dealing with the large number of false accounts. As I said, they are trolling many of us involved in political life and, recently, journalists have been abused and have received threats online. What is Mr. O'Driscoll's view on what these media companies should do to address this?

Mr. O'Driscoll mentioned working with the Department of Education. This is something we discussed at a previous meeting. We asked representatives of Facebook, Twitter and so forth to fund a campaign with the Department of Education. As Mr. O'Driscoll said, some work is done there, but it is not rolled out across all schools. Individual schools have to ask for that programme and the number of schools that have asked for it is significantly low. As I have stated previously, a safety programme should be rolled out across all schools in the country to show children the abuses and so forth that exist. It would be good to hear Mr. O'Driscoll's views on that.