Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)

I fully agree with the Minister of State's point about social media - I will not drag this on much longer, a Cheann Comhairle - particularly on the issue of eating disorders. This really strikes me. I remember when I was a teenager that the pro-ana or pro-anorexia movement was on MySpace and Bebo. This is not a new phenomenon but we have to get to the bottom of it because people are losing their lives to eating disorders. People are losing years of quality of life to eating disorders. At this stage, in 2025, the Internet has been around for a while and Google since 1998. We need to get a grip on this.

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