Ms Saoirse Brady:

In respect of the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill is coming before members' colleagues this week and we will appear before the relevant committee on Thursday. One of our asks in respect of this Bill is around the education remit of an online safety commissioner. That is key. If we had that not just for children and young people but for parents and teachers, it would really help.

There is a wider issue about ensuring there is a proper curriculum for children and young people within schools that would also help and support teachers to address some of these key issues around cyberbullying so this is also an opportunity for this committee to look at how that interacts with the online safety commissioner piece. We see it as possibly a quality assured programme where people who are delivering this training within schools would have to be approved by the online safety commissioner. It would be like a blue tick or a quality assurance to ensure that factual information is given.