Mary Ann O'Brien (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I second Senator O'Keeffe regarding our dear friend, Senator Harte. It demonstrates to us all how incredibly fragile life is. That fragility brings us to an announcement in the UK about a poisonous, malignant and damaging industry that permeates the entire planet, that of child pornography. I would like the Leader to talk to the Minister and establish once and for all if the Government intends to follow the UK lead. The US and UK law enforcement agencies have come together to target online abuse. Microsoft and Google have also come together and ground-breaking engineers have brought out new technology that can spot straight away if somebody is trying to put up a paedophile's abusive video. There are 100,000 terms that now block searches on Google and these changes will soon apply in 150 languages. They have built a motorway for us. This is a serious global problem. I plead with the Leader to get our motor car and drive down that motorway which has been presented to us on a plate.