Mr. Michael Gubbins:

If I take off my Garda hat and put on my parent's hat, the Deputy is right that kids spend an inordinate amount of time on social media and the Internet, either watching movies or communicating with their friends. That is the medium through which they communicate today. As a parent, I have done my best to have a conversation with them about the privilege of having access to this instantaneous information and communication and to understand how they use it and behave on it. They are the same rules as one would apply if meeting a person in one's house or elsewhere, including not being rude to them or displaying images of them. We have had some interesting conversations over dinner following from things I have seen at work. I cannot reiterate enough the importance of parents taking responsibility and having a conversation with their children about balance and how to behave online. It should be no different from how they behave if I or their mother was in the room.