Education Minister Norma Foley lashed out at the risks and dangers of smartphones for children in her keynote address at the annual Fianna Fail Ard Fheis in Dublin.
The Minister was speaking ahead of her bringing a memorandum to Cabinet on Tuesday that will help schools ban smartphones in the classroom.
Ms Foley said: “I will be beginning a memo to Cabinet on Tuesday in relation to the use of smartphones in primary schools and really how best we can work with parents to ensure that there will be a collective decision among parents to not purchase smartphones for children of primary school age until they leave primary school.”
In her speech to the Fianna Fail faithful at the Ard Fheis, Ms Foley said: “It’s the question of smartphones and children, in particular primary school children and their use of smartphones and all of that.“There are clear benefits to owning a smartphone, there is no doubt about that.“Principals tell me and school leaders tell me that online bullying using smartphones happens outside school hours, they can’t control it, it happens outside of school.
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