Peter Cleere (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

Would we have any line of sight of the number of scam SMS messages that are sent every year? To give an example, last week a pensioner came into my office crying because she got a message from what she thought was Revenue looking for her details to update the system. She gave those details in good faith and was scammed out of a couple of hundred euro. That is just one example that happened last week. Many people come in to me saying they are getting messages from various State agencies such as An Post. So many of them are coming. There are two types of digital people: digital immigrants and digital natives. I am a digital immigrant, as I did not have a mobile phone growing up until I was 18 or 19 years of age. Even our younger generation are getting caught and they know no different. They are experts in terms of the digital side of things.