Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
MeDeMAP Research Project: Engagement with the National Citizens' Parliament for Media and Democracy
2:00 am
Aengus Ó Snodaigh (Dublin South Central, Sinn Fein)
On that point, just short of 50 years ago, as an experiment in our school, a series of classes on media studies were introduced that were not on the curriculum. We all took an interest. The person delivering it was interested in computers. At that stage, I found it so useful to be able to look at different stories from different perspectives. In this day and age, every child, from the age of four onwards, needs to have those critical faculties encouraged, not just in terms of social media but in terms of everything that is happening, especially with the advent of AI. I welcome the fact that was looked at.
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