Mr. Fearghal Burke:

We were delighted to see the cybersafety programme rolled out through Clare youth service and Youth Work Ireland in other regions across Ireland as well.

While it is partly the role of Comhairle na nÓg to influence practitioners, we are interested in going a step further. In late 2017, ten members travelled to Cork to train as peer education mentors to enable us to deliver the programmes ourselves. We did this with McAfee, a leading cybersafety company. Yesterday, the programme was launched worldwide. It had been run only in Ireland until yesterday. The first stages are completed and in recent days, we found out the second programme of the workshop will be held in the coming weeks. We have been invited to NUI Galway to teach teachers because we believe it is better coming from young people. We thank the committee for listening.