Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I hope my computer is working now. It did not want me to speak earlier.

I wish to ask our guests about social media because at the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee this week there was focus on how social media may play a part in targeting youth in terms of generating anti-social behaviour or being influenced by paramilitaries. What are the views of our guests in that regard?

I left Tyrone when I was a teenager. In the context of the report, I ask our guests to address the trans-generational trauma and the unique challenges that kids are facing.

I am on the board of Social Anxiety Ireland. Social anxiety is the most common anxiety disorder in the world but also the least known because people with social anxiety do not wish to speak about having it. Is that something our guests notice?

I thank our guests for coming in. I will drop down to the committee room at some stage. I was waiting for somebody to come to my office so I could not leave.