Professor Brian O'Neill:

Yes, very much so. I agree absolutely. One of the central values most interested stakeholders will put forward is that the Internet is an opportunity and a platform for children to exercise their rights to develop as young people and to find many positive opportunities to avail of.

Again, the policy approach at a European level must ensure that children have a voice and are represented. Part of the commitment under what was originally the safer Internet programme and which is now the better Internet programme is that there is a youth panel specifically on Internet issues in all cases. That is represented in Ireland under the safer Internet Ireland programme. They are one part of the engagement but they speak for young people and they ensure that the education awareness raising initiatives speak from the experience of young people and that research itself informs on the basis of both surveys and qualitative work which articulate young people's experiences and their concerns.