Keira Keogh (Mayo, Fine Gael)

I thank all the witnesses. I was listening to their opening statements online. The survey from the National Parents Council is especially helpful. I also have a survey in general on online safety. Sometimes for parents, the act of filling in the survey gets them to think of the questions they do not know the answers to and perhaps start those discussions with their children. Sometimes we look at nine- or ten-year-olds and never imagine what they can get up to online or with AI so the surveys are good in the first place.

Fionn's AI cramming was probably healthier than my 4 a.m. Red Bull cramming, so we have come a long way. Grace and Fionn brought up regulation and homed in on age verification. I met with TikTok at the ploughing championship last week. Its representatives were talking about behaviour analysis to figure out if someone is between 13 and 16 years or 16 and 18. There is also talk of bringing in a European wallet on the Google Play store or on the app store so that one would have to upload some kind of ID. Then there is facial estimation for age verification. What are their feelings as youth representatives about what kinds of verifications they would lean towards more?