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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: Deputy Neville made a very helpful observation earlier, and Mr. Fearghal Burke also mentioned that he is training teachers. It is very clear that if we can make any recommendations as part of our report to the Houses of the Oireachtas on cybersecurity, it would be to improve the educational standard and teachings that have been provided, not just to students but also to teachers. A module...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: I want to welcome Deputy Dooley who has joined the meeting. We shall take Deputies Rabbitte, Lawless and Dooley in that order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: I am sorry to interrupt the responses to Deputy Lawless. How can apps that are closed, such as Snapchat, be monitored?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: We will conclude after Deputy Dooley.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: The Deputy has more parental experience than I do, but it is my observation that the primary school network is tighter in terms of parental involvement. Clearly, teenagers are more independent and go to school on their own, etc. Having listened to the suggestions made, primary school would be the avenue to take in commencing the process of educating parents.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: I will draw our conversation to a conclusion as we are way over time. I am aware that the delegates from Newbridge, in particular, are on the clock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: My four-year-old had an iPad, although he was not able to use it. It has become an integral part of his education. We will take a final comment from each of the delegates before drawing the meeting to a conclusion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: Good luck with that. I thank the delegates for their contributions to our hearings on the issue of cybersecurity. Unusually, I will name all of my colleagues who have taken the time to attend, quite a number of whom are not members of the committee. My colleague and the Vice Chairman, Senator Joan Freeman, could not make it and sent her apologies, as did another member, Senator...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (8 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: 47. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has identified priority areas for primary health care centres in the Fingal area of north County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6101/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: I welcome Professor Barry O'Sullivan, director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in the department of computer science in University College Cork, UCC, and Dr. Mary Aiken, adjunct associate professor at the University College Dublin, UCD, Geary Institute for public policy and academic adviser to the European Cybercrime Centre at Europol. I thank the witnesses for appearing before the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: I thank the witnesses very much for their opening statements. I invite Deputy Chambers to commence the discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: If the Deputy does not mind, we will group the questions and then get a response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: No. We will look after that. We will just let Deputy Lisa Chambers finish asking her questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: Is Deputy Lisa Chambers happy with the witnesses' responses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: There is a third strand to this topic on which I suspect Deputy Anne Rabbitte is about to touch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: In a room full of politicians that is not so hard to answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: Senator Catherine Noone wishes to come. I have to proceed in order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: For the information of witnesses, next week there will be two groups before us. They will be the Internet Content Governance Advisory Group and four Ministers, including those responsible for education, children, communications and justice. It is important in putting together a final opportunity to extrapolate from everything we have heard over the past four months. The most important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Cybersecurity for Children and Young Adults: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: On the representatives' opening statement and the conversation they have just had with Deputy Neville around education, Dr. Aiken has said that education in this regard has failed. Deputy Neville has highlighted the fact that it is deficient. I do not believe that deficiency is a failure but, as a parent and as a legislator, I believe that the basic principle behind all of this is that we...