Ms Kathryn Walsh:

As I said in my opening presentation, I have circulated the Irish Heart Foundation's submission on the online safety Bill. We need to examine undue commercial exploitation and recognise children's right in the digital environment, specifically referring to paragraphs 41 and 42 of comment 25 of the Committee on the Rights of the Child, making sure that profiling and the targeting of children for any commercial purpose based on their digital record is prohibited. We need to prevent children from seeing these advertisements. It is not just a case of banner advertisements but also of product placement. We must remember that product placement happens on children's sites, not just on the main adult sites. It happens very easily on the children's sites. I have seen it myself as I have a young child. We need to make sure companies adhere to due diligence.

Specifically, on data protection, I would like to reinforce the recommendation of the Data Protection Commission in that the online safety commissioner should also consider online harm related to personal data.