Sharon Keogan (Independent)
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I thank all our guests for coming in today. It is always great to hear from young children and teenagers about their experiences online. I found Shineka's presentation quite shocking. To think that children as young as five, six and seven were spending an hour or a couple of hours online is even more shocking than hearing that 18- to 30-year-olds are spending three to four hours or sometimes over four hours online. If you add that into the iPad education system, where students are probably online for six hours of the day, it is quite shocking.

There has been a lot of talk today about the providers, whether Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok or YouTube, and company responsibility. What about parental responsibility? Do parents need to step up in relation to what children are seeing online? Do parents need to have a little bit more control in relation to their children's devices? What do the witnesses feel about parental responsibility and how parents need to step up in regard to what their children are seeing online?