Paschal Mooney (Fianna Fail)

I acknowledge the Oireachtas Library for providing me with the statistical information on the problem and Ailish O'Hora who wrote an article in the business section of the Irish Independent on the impact of spam on Irish business.

Will the Minister of State or anyone else attend a European Forum for Electronic Business seminar, "Spam – the Death of e-Mail", which will start at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, on 3 December? Does the Minister of State agree with Senator Conrad Burns, a Republican from Montana, who sponsored the Can-Spam Act, that there will not be a cut back in the amount of spam until someone is caught and prosecuted and he knows for sure that we are serious about the enforcement of the law?