Keira Keogh (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I am going to speak next. We will then go to Deputy Boland.

I thank the witnesses for their engagement so far. I wanted to touch on the complaints about bullying. How many of them related to social media? I can see in the Ombudsman for Children's submission to Coimisiún na Meán around the online safety code, it put in recommendations on safety by design, parental controls, complaints literacy and age verification. I am passionate about age verification across social media, but also pushing for age verification on pornography sites. Was there much of a correlation between bullying complaints and social media? I was recently speaking to Pieta House representatives. They noted a trend where they used to get referrals in from teenagers at the age of 16, but that has gone down to 14. There are a lot of links to social media. What are the thoughts of the witnesses on that?