Minister pushing bid to ban smartphones for under 14s
The Minister for Communications, Denis Naughten, is understood to view such proposals as unworkable
A government minister wants to ban children under 14 from owning smartphones, and restrict their access to the internet.
Fine Gael’s Jim Daly tried to advance proposals previously dismissed as unworkable by child and internet safety experts shortly after he became mental health minister last year.
In a newly-released letter, he told the Taoiseach and a senior Department of Health official that he was “still very anxious” to introduce a law he had ...
