Ms Julie Ahern:

On remedies, we were looking at the best practice in terms of children's access to a proper remedy under European Convention rights and under Irish law. The Council of Europe in the guidelines on the digital environment recommended there should be a suite of remedies available to children and young people, the main one being effective takedown procedures with other options where there are different instances of things happening. This is so it is not confined to one thing and there are other remedies available, like, as the Deputy mentioned, compensation. In broadcasting media as it is now, if somebody is defamed, they have the option of getting compensation, a retraction or a right of reply. It would be analogous to that so that if you were defamed or something was said about you online, you would have those opportunities. It is about looking at the suite of things that can happen and the suite of remedies available. There is more information on that in the guidelines coming from the Council of Europe. It looks at children's rights under the European Convention of Human Rights and domestic legislation.