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:

We did get some funding from Tusla in the last year for work in Wicklow specifically. In its strategy for the county it had identified that online safety for children was a key priority so it approached us to provide sessions in schools. It identified the 23 most vulnerable schools across the county. We did sessions with the children and the parents and then reported specifically on the data for Wicklow. The data were very interesting because they differed from our averages.