Noeline Blackwell
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 23 Jul
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So they are accessing at least a third of children are accessing AI chatbots for friendship and often for emotional support.
And gaming is
What an awful lot of children prefer to do than chatting.
So these are things that have been notoriously unregulated.
So those are going to be brought in to a greater extent.
That's good, that's useful.
And one of the areas, though, that children are still at huge risk, and that and that the Commission knows it, and and the Parliament knows it, is that children are at
real risk of sexual abuse online, sexual exploitation, and both the Parliament and the Commission seem unable to update the criminal law in relation to that or to put monitoring responsibilities on the platforms because Parliament is not able to work out how to preserve people's privacy as well as children's protection.
So
We're hoping that with this will also come a renewed effort in the area of child sexual abuse material to build uh to build better systems, to build regulations, to build better harmonisation of laws across Europe so that our children are at least as safe online as they are offline, which isn't the case right now.
Yes, yes.
So so it's it's even not that they're not perfect.
They haven't actually even been properly tested.
You have to remember that for twenty years the tech companies have been building their uh understanding of how to keep children online, how to engage them online.
Regulation in Ireland is at best two to three years old.
And because it's regulation, it has to go through evidence building, it has to go through uh initial uh uh understanding of what the platforms are doing.
So but there but there is something I think maybe in the air just with that speech and with the talk of new legislation.
A and actually the it is said the EU has not been doing enough in this area.
The President von der Leyen said that, that there ha enough hasn't been done.
And it seems to us, not unlike in other areas of law that we all know about, it's one thing to have the law, it's another thing to enforce it vigorously and attentively and quickly.
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