Ciarán Cudahy

If people agree or disagree, whatever people think.

And more broadly, again, do people agree or disagree with the direction of travel here?

Patrick O'Donovan, media minister, says if there's not a EU agreement, we are going it alone and we are going to ban social media use for those under the age of 16 like Australia.

We'll keep this conversation going after a short break.

Kevin McGann is on the line.

Kevin, do you think we should be restricting kids' access to social media?

And was this instructions for you as the parent or did it differentiate?

Yeah.

Did you get on to the publishers of the school to ask about it?

Are you going to hold fast?

But the screen use... What's the issue you have with it?

Because they're not going to be going on the screen to go on TikTok or X or Snapchat, well, when Hope's and junior infants or senior infants... Well, parents, number one, it's being implied to parents that screens are fine.

But part of the education system is to produce, you know, a well-rounded young adult eventually who knows how to get by in the world and getting by in the world will absolutely include screens.

Yeah.

Well, listen, if anybody else has noticed this screen creep in primary schools, get in touch on 51551.

Alva's on the line as well, Alva Lee.

Alva, do you think that we are becoming too reliant on screens?

And do you think that we are right when it comes to those teenage years to ban social media use?

But Alba, what then?

What do you say?