Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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In fairness to Professor O’Higgins Norman, he dealt with the whole issue of the necessity for joined-up thinking. We need to get it right with respect to schools, communities and beyond. He addressed the specific difficulties with social media, the cyberworld and gaming platforms. Who should be involved in recording the metrics? I imagine it would be the companies but what exactly are we talking about?

Does Professor O’Higgins Norman consider there is a need for a digital safety commissioner or similar who would have some element of oversight? These tech companies have the facility, as Professor O'Higgins Norman referenced, of using AI from the perspective of having a general ability to notice this type of behaviour. He also spoke about the need for greater collaboration with schools, which we would need to facilitate. How would that relationship work? What would be the structure and enforcement powers, for want of a better term? How would we see the outworkings of that? If Professor O'Higgins Norman could answer those questions, I may ask a follow-up question.