Debate contribution: Schools: Mobile Phone Pouches
Debate contribution by Mr Justin McNulty on .
- MLA
- Mr Justin McNulty
- Party at the time
- Social Democratic and Labour Party
- Date
- 14 September 2026
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Schools: Mobile Phone Pouches
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 5685627
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Minister, your Department's evidence identifies the impact of mobile phones on pupil well-being, behaviour, development and safeguarding, as well as the insidiously destructive nature of cyberbullying. What specific measures, beyond restricting phones in schools, is your Department taking to address those wider harms? Will social media companies be taken to task with regard to their responsibilities to protect and shield children?
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