Calls to ban online ads for junk food, alcohol, and gambling targeting children

An Oireachtas committee has recommended that the online safety bill should include a ban on advertising junk food and high fat/salt/sugar foods. Picture: PA

A new online safety bill should include a ban on advertising junk food, alcohol, high fat/salt/sugar foods, and gambling to children, an Oireachtas committee has recommended.

A draft report by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill, seen by The Irish Examiner, contains 26 recommendations including a ban on the ads to children.