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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...

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

Alan Farrell: Dr. Aiken mentioned the distortion of images and the effect this will have on young teenage girls in particular. This has come up again and again in terms of image and self-esteem. With regard to augmenting policy on social media providers, in terms of getting an icon put on the corner of the screen or something to this effect, has any other jurisdiction had any success on this?

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

Alan Farrell: My observation on this is that it is all well and good the UK is doing this, and perhaps other jurisdictions will follow suit and that is good, but the biggest proponent of this is probably the US, from whence many of those who are celebrities for being celebrities are noted and online. I do not look at Instagram that often, but if we look at it any of these apps we see everybody using...

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

Alan Farrell: Not to pick on one company, but I am reminded of the McAfee security settings way back 20 years ago, which were minimum, just below average, average, above average and maximum. What occurs to me is that something that could be of use for a lot of parents out there is a usage app that limits usage for everything else, and depending on how good the child is that particular day it could be...

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

Alan Farrell: The difficulty is there are people out there who did not.

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

Alan Farrell: We will have to vacate the room, so I will take the next three speakers together and then the final responses.

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

Alan Farrell: I will have to draw proceedings to a close by thanking sincerely our two witnesses this afternoon and for your incredibly full engagement with the committee. I also thank members for their time and consideration of this matter. On behalf of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, I thank you for your attendance and for dealing with members' questions so...

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]

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: I call Deputy Brian Stanley, who is sharing time with Deputy Carol Nolan.

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: The Minister, Deputy Naughten, has ten minutes.

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Alan Farrell: I am not accepting Deputy Mattie McGrath making allegations like that against-----