Gerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would not regard myself as an expert at all. As the Chief Information Officer, Mr. Lowry, is definitely the expert over me on that kind of thing. The Facebooks of this world are under pressure to not allow anonymous accounts. They are also under pressure to prevent fake news being put out there as if it is real. There will be a large appetite on the part of lots of people, including criminals and others, who would like to have an anonymous existence and, perhaps, operate out of other jurisdictions. There is an appetite for us to be able to know who is behind what goes up there and the people who are making the comments.

I am conscious of time so I will ask my final question. The committee has discussed the cyberattack on the HSE. In terms of the security of the data, would it be held by each nation or in a big European cloud somewhere? I know it is all in the cloud anyway, but who minds it and how is it protected? We all use online banking, mobile phone data and lots of tools that present a risk. Has anyone been looking at the security aspect of it? Has there been much exploration of that in this particular revision of the regulation, given the access to the identities of 300 million or 400 million people that would be seen as being as verifiable as a passport?