Online Safety
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-24
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Norma Foley (FF), Kerry

I appreciate the Deputy’s interest in this area and indeed her shining a light on it. It behoves us to acknowledge the world in which we live today. Significant progress has been made by the Department. There is also a recognition that more needs to be done in this space and it is for that reason there is the review of the programmes we deliver. In the interim, we have made the toolkits available, and we have, as the Deputy has referred to, supports such as Webwise. We also have our PDST, which is specifically supporting our staff, the toolkits that are available online. The whole impetus for all of this is to ensure we can have respectful online communications through the development of digital literacy, as the Deputy has said, which is very important. We want our young people to have digital literacy, but also that they would be cognisant and mindful of the need for online safety and the safe and ethical use of all digital technologies, which is at the core of all we seek to achieve.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-24