Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will ask Ms Richardson about something the committee dealt with three years ago as part of our work on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill. We met with a young Cork youth activist, Alicia O'Sullivan, who was then 19. She very bravely appeared before this committee regarding an incident that happened to her. A false Instagram account was set up in her name, images were taken from her legitimate Instagram account and coupled with naked videos and pictures of another girl and an account was set up to sell porn through that. This was obviously a high profile cast at the time. She was critical when she first reported this to An Garda Síochána. A commitment was given at the time regarding the resources available to the Garda to deal with this issue because online crimes had changed. In the three-year period since, how has that commitment progressed? What is the trend in that sphere given that these kinds of crimes are just as appalling as if someone was assaulted on the street?