Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 July 2025

Committee on Children and Equality

Engagement with Tusla

2:00 am

Ms Kate Duggan:

There are challenges for us all in terms of the use of social media, oversight of use and trying to be protective. As a parent, the challenge for me is that my children are steps ahead of me, and my friends with whom I discuss this say the same. We have policies within our services around social media. This is something with which our foster carers and residential care staff struggle. For many of your young people, their phone is their connection. We are constantly asking ourselves, every day, how we can do this differently and better. Mr. Hone might talk more about some of the services and programmes.