Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Children's Experiences during COVID-19 Restrictions and Lockdowns: Engagement

Ms LilyRose Wogan-Martin:

There is not much to say. When we watch RTÉ news or anything to do with politicians, people tend to be very negative because there is not much that is positive about a pandemic. I guess that could really scare people. At the start when nobody knew what was happening it was quite scary. All we were hearing was that children were spreading the virus or that it could get worse every day. I feel that people would have been affected. It is quite hard to say because news has to be delivered, but sometimes it got very negative. It is good to deliver news but sometimes when sitting down to watch RTÉ News, and my parents do that every day at six o'clock, it was mostly the same negative things. It would be good if we had a bit of the positive, such as reporting on a community that is doing good things for children this week.

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