Ms Aoife Carragher:

This is a live conversation and topic. A good deal has happened in the committee and YAP Ireland was before it talking about it. We looked back at some of the comments and contributions that group made at that time. What its representatives brought up all the time was education for them and education for their parents and for adults. Belle, one of the young people we had here, was from a larger family. She spoke about how children themselves need to have the tools. It is very important the regulation is there for social media companies and for everyone else but we need to really support children and their parents and families on the education side. That is something we will definitely be pushing within the office.

Dr. Muldoon mentioned it is our 20th anniversary. We are working on a survey.

We have surveyed more than 1,000 children and will be publishing the results shortly. Online safety and education is one of the issues that has really come up for them. They see the online world as part of their everyday world and we have to make that safe for them, as much as we can. That is what they are telling us.