Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill

Photo of Brendan GriffinBrendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A number of the questions I had hoped to ask have been covered by colleagues. I want to delve further into the area of online safety, in particular the protection of younger children. How does Ms Quill envisage we will protect children from platforms that are quite obviously being targeted towards younger children?

From what I see, there seems to be a drive to get as many people as possible on to these platforms from as early an age as possible. What is the optimum that can be done in that regard and does the current legislation go far enough?

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