Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Children's Experiences during COVID-19 Restrictions and Lockdowns: Engagement

Ms Olga Buckina:

For me, before the lockdown, I might have sat at home and been on my phone mindlessly scrolling through something. I took the fact that we could go outside for granted. I would say to myself “I am too tired to go outside or do anything today” and I would just sit and use my phone. During the lockdown, when we switched to being on technology all the time, we got used to it after a while. Now, I am much more eager to drop the phone and do anything I can when I have the opportunity to go outside. When I can meet my friends and actually do stuff, I am more eager to do that now.