Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes, or less than that. I agree with Senator Seery Kearney, but the responsibility to legislate is here. If people want, for example, anonymised accounts or micro targeting ended and better regulation of these platforms, we legislate for it here. There is no use in Government Deputies coming here and complaining that there have been 15 years of failure in self-regulation by the industry when we know self-regulation in many other areas has failed. The challenge I put to the Deputies and Senators, and I accept their sincerity because I share many of their concerns, is to regulate. If they will not do that, people will question their sincerity when they come here to rail at platforms for not regulating when that is our job. Beyond this Bill, which we all have accepted is very limited in its regulation of online advertising, there is clearly a bigger job of work for this House to do. I believe members would have willing partners across the Chambers to regulate platforms properly to deal with all these issues. Let us go and do it. Then we will not be asking industry to regulate itself because we will have taken our responsibilities as legislators seriously.