Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Young Social Innovators: Discussion

Ms Karen Murphy:

I agree with Darragh. From doing this project this year, it has been crazy to see the amount I learned. On Instagram or whatever, as a teenage girl or, in Darragh's case, as a teenage boy, you would sit, scroll and compare yourself to these images. We brought awareness to this issue through the project. We sat back and thought that particular images were altered or filtered or something. Education, as well as legislation, is important. We had two main goals at the start of our project. Our first goal was to educate the young people of Ireland. Our second, bigger goal was to change the legislation. We think that we have impacted our local areas. We went to all the primary schools. They definitely got something out of it. We would be interested in committee members trying to put something into the system to educate the young people.

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