Seanad debates

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Adjournment Matters

Child Pornography

2:40 pm

Photo of Jillian van TurnhoutJillian van Turnhout (Independent) | Oireachtas source

-----involved 135,555 images and videos. How many children in Ireland are we talking about? Please, let us not quibble over figures. Since Hotline.ie does not advertise, the public do not know that they can report cases. The countries that block can report how many hits per day those sites receive. I would accept this measure. Time and again, Internet service providers argue that it should be down to the country of source. In that case, why not review our drugs policy? Let us go to the country of source. Let us not put up any customs control. This does not make sense. We block drugs coming into the country. Why do we not block child abuse material? The same logic applies. We are discussing children's lives.

I am happy to work on this issue and I realise the Minister's commitment, but I also realise that there is a strong lobby. I want an equally strong lobby on this side to argue that blocking is the answer.

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