Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)

This is a cop-out on the Minister's part. This matter concerns five to 14 year olds and dealing with it as a criminal manner is not the answer. An Irish-based company, Century, is travelling to Singapore under an Enterprise Ireland grant to install SIM cards that can deal with mobile phone bullying. It is simple to install and is urgently required but the Minister is not following it up. The time has come for him to take action and call in the operators to ensure the technology that is available is implemented and put an end to this growing problem.

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