Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion

Karolina Byrne:

As a teenager, I think that social media is a nuisance. When I got my first phone, I was only allowed to have a small Nokia phone until I was 13. Then I got a phone from my godmother. I was going into secondary school at the time and it was important that I had a phone. At that time, there were a lot of things I did not know about social media because I was stuck in Covid and not at school. People do not know much about social media and they are doing things they should not be doing. My younger sister was never given the same treatment as me.

She should have been treated the same because social media is such a bad place.