Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Professor Barry O'Sullivan:

In terms of the innovations, we cannot control who phones who, obviously, but these companies will not be working in an environment that is any different here than in France, Germany or the Netherlands and I do not believe that we should fear that too much. I believe the public will be pushing back so strongly against social media that this simply will become something the social media companies will want to do anyway. They are probably ahead of us already in terms of these issues. They know these are issues that need to be solved. In terms of bans-----