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Online Safety: Motion

2026-02-26 Lost Seanad Éireann Division Amendment put:
9Tá
24Níl
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What the debate was about

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It recognises that Ireland now has a stronger online safety framework, including the Digital Services Act and the work of Coimisiún na Meán. Safety online starts with trust, relationships and education online.

Recently we have seen huge strides in online safety but we know that stronger age verification is the key to ensuring we keep young people safe online. Youth work contributes to online safety in three key ways, providing education and guidance to help young people to navigate the digital world confidently and critically, offering responsive support when online harm or abuse occurs and creating save online environments that foster connection, resilience and well-being.

digital 96online 109safety 65children 72young 57motion 40media 43presidency 24people 79meán 18

Key terms by TF-IDF across 6,930 words from 17 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.

Tellers

Tellers: Tá, Senators Alice-Mary Higgins and Pauline Tully; Níl, Senators Garret Ahearn and Paul Daly.

Other votes in this debate

QuestionResultTá–Níl
Amendment put: Lost 9–24

Tá

9
  • IND Independent 3
  • SF Sinn Féin 3
  • AON Aontú 1
  • GP Green Party 1
  • SD Social Democrats 1
IND Alice-Mary Higgins National University of Ireland
IND Aubrey McCarthy University of Dublin
IND Lynn Ruane University of Dublin
SF Joanne Collins Agricultural Panel
SF Maria McCormack Labour Panel
SF Pauline Tully Cultural and Educational Panel
AON Sarah O'Reilly Agricultural Panel
GP Malcolm Noonan Agricultural Panel
SD Patricia Stephenson Labour Panel

Níl

24
  • FG Fine Gael 12
  • FF Fianna Fáil 11
  • IND Independent 1
FG Eileen Lynch Agricultural Panel
FG Gareth Scahill Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG Garret Ahearn Administrative Panel
FG Garret Kelleher Industrial and Commercial Panel
FG Joe O'Reilly Labour Panel
FG Linda Nelson Murray Industrial and Commercial Panel
FG Manus Boyle Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG Mark Duffy Labour Panel
FG Mike Kennelly Labour Panel
FG Noel O'Donovan Nominated by the Taoiseach
FG Paraic Brady Agricultural Panel
FG Seán Kyne Cultural and Educational Panel
FF Fiona O'Loughlin Administrative Panel
FF Joe Flaherty Nominated by the Taoiseach
FF Lorraine Clifford-Lee Nominated by the Taoiseach
FF Margaret Murphy O'Mahony Labour Panel
FF Mary Fitzpatrick Industrial and Commercial Panel
FF Niall Blaney Agricultural Panel
FF Ollie Crowe Industrial and Commercial Panel
FF Pat Casey Labour Panel
FF Paul Daly Agricultural Panel
FF Robbie Gallagher Labour Panel
FF Shane Curley Cultural and Educational Panel
IND Martin Conway Administrative Panel

Party shown is the one each member held on 2026-02-26, frozen by a dated join — not their party today. The Oireachtas API publishes no date of birth and returns an empty gender field for every member in this period, so no age or gender breakdown is shown.