Dr. Tricia Keilthy:

Specifically on the online safety code, for all the reasons Ms Ward outlined, safety by design is critical to ensure the spaces that children are interacting with are child friendly and social media companies are accountable to those measures. Age assurance is vitally important and how that is operationalised still needs to be worked out. One of the areas of concern that we are looking at is artificial intelligence, AI, and how that impacts children's rights and in particular the issue of recommender systems, or the algorithms, and how inappropriate content is fed to children and the impact that has on their mental health as well. We want to see a much greater focus on protecting children online.