Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed)

9:30 am

Ms Alex Cooney:

Its stated intent to ensure the UK is the safest place for a child to be online is an important one. Dr. Maggie Brennan will go into the range of measures more but what we liked is that the UK is talking about making social media companies more accountable. It is a voluntary code of good conduct. There are questions about how effective it will be. There is also talk about expanding the curriculum and the content of the curriculum so the subject is covered more effectively in schools, which we think is good. There are some good measures proposed.