Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Photo of Alan FarrellAlan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

For the information of witnesses, next week there will be two groups before us. They will be the Internet Content Governance Advisory Group and four Ministers, including those responsible for education, children, communications and justice. It is important in putting together a final opportunity to extrapolate from everything we have heard over the past four months. The most important aspect gleaned last week from our interactions with Comhairle na nÓg and secondary school students was their first-hand experience. Even those teenagers expressed the requirement for education to take over pretty much every strain of this debate because knowledge is key. In all of this information presented to us, which is very helpful, the important point highlighted by Comhairle was that just 20% of parents were cognisant of what their teenagers or children were doing online.

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