Keira Keogh (Mayo, Fine Gael)

Obligations are one thing but we definitely need sanctions and need them quickly. The deadline for these obligations to be in place is 21 July. The Minister will forgive me for my scepticism, but I do not see swift action following. We need to name these companies, shame these companies and have swift sanctions. At a national level, we need to be able to discuss these challenges openly. We have to educate our young people on consent. We have to ensure we are tackling at the very least under 18s who are being exposed to violence and rape. Just this week Women's Aid reported a 12% increase in people contacting it over domestic violence. It had 32,144 people contacting it this year. We know that there is a connection between pornography and violence against women.

We also need to consider that only 20% of parents are using parental controls. There is a lot of work that we need to do here and I just do not get a sense of urgency. I am Chairperson of the Committee on Children and Equality. We need to look at all the ways that we can protect our children from this harm.

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