Ciarán Cudahy

I didn't bring in heroin.

You said, you know, we ban heroin and firearms and everything.

So should we just get rid of the bans and all of them?

The best of luck... But banning works for those other things, but it just won't work for this.

Is that right?

What are you doing as a parent?

Eimear, do parents need to take more responsibility here for this?

So, I mean, is there a bit of parents passing the buck then when they want government to ban the...

Well, there are lots of people who do agree and others who disagree getting in touch on the phone line on 0818715815 and others getting in touch by text.

51551 is that number.

I'll just give you a flavour of some of the texts.

Social media is currently poisonous.

The only way to get the companies to change their behaviour is to restrict their accessibility to users.

Ban anyone under 18 from accessing these sites and watch how fast the attitude changes.

says somebody else my 17 year old daughter was listening to this proposal she went through a number of very difficult situations relating to social media use algorithms suggesting suicide when she was only 13 or 14 strangers following her accounts because she did not understand the need for privacy at that age she said she thinks banning it for under 16s is a good idea this is a child whose life depended on having social media accounts from 13 as all of her friends and classmates had them

David, I'll let you go.

Thanks, David.

51551 the number if you want to get in touch by text if you're just joining us we're talking about Patrick O'Donovan media minister today suggesting he's not going to wait for the EU if there is no agreement Ireland is going to go it alone and ban social media for those under the age of 16 much like was tried and is happening in Australia whether it's successful or not we might get into and Niamh is on the line Niamh how old are you do you mind me asking

And so what do you think of this ban?

of education and it's really important like for me and it gives me so many opportunities if so many other young people so many opportunities and it's something very valuable that you just can't take away yeah it's it's hard to argue I mean even people who support the ban it's hard for them I suspect suspect to argue that it's universally bad but do you accept that there are negative sides to it