Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Rónán MullenRónán Mullen (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to follow up on the tech companies with Mr. Arneill or whoever would like to respond. Are we sometimes too afraid to deprecate and to call it like it is with respect to the too early and too frequent access to technology? Is there a tendency, and the research shows it, that the potential for cyberbullying increases as children’s access to technology increases?

Do we not have to ask questions about empowering parents to say "not too soon" for access to technology, not too frequent during the day and not late at night or in the bedroom? Do we need to get back to that kind of braver discussion? This is about "noes" as well as "yeses", is it not?

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