Lisa Chambers (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Sometimes I struggle and keep checking the phone 200 times a day. We all need to check ourselves. Someone said "Monkey see, monkey do". We have work to do ourselves. How do we formulate the guidelines? Senator Noone and others have said it would be very helpful for parents if they could point to national guidelines and abide by them. Have the witnesses done any work on what the guidelines might be? It might sound it, but it is not extreme to ban smart phones from national schools. No national school child should have a smart phone. Should we even take that the junior certificate level? Do they need smart phones? We do not have longitudinal studies on the impact on the mental health of young people and their social skills, but if we do not do it now-----