Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael)
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I do not deny that, but we see what can happen on social media. A person can just go on X and put up a post. I mute everything and never see what is on there because it is just so appalling. People can, through a screen, say and be who they are but their in-person behaviour could be very different. We see teenagers with heightened levels of anxiety in our schools. We have had to bring in mental health supports and that is not all related to Covid. I appreciate that a little of it is due to the pandemic but a good deal of it has got to do with the fact that teenagers are communicating by means of devices as opposed to in person and are not using cues like eye contact. All of those types of social cues are being lost.