Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Ms Haugen and thank her for what she has done. The decision she made to come out to the public will make the lives of many people around the world safer and better. I wish to put that on the record. Part of the Future of Media Commission and its establishment in Ireland is an online safety commissioner. I would feel a lot safer if somebody like Ms Haugen was in such a position. Many of my colleagues here would agree that we need somebody who knows the systems and the companies and Ms Haugen would be an ideal person for that portfolio or job.

To be honest, many of the questions I had planned to ask have been asked, so I will not repeat them. A number of my colleagues wish to ask questions. However, with regard to false accounts and the many millions of false accounts that exist, particularly on Facebook, in our pre-legislative scrutiny we discussed introducing a minimum age for accounts and requiring the online media companies to get more information to make sure the accounts were, first, of people over a certain age and, second, that they were not going to be used falsely for harm. What is Ms Haugen's view on setting a minimum age for any account on social media?