Mr. Paddy McGeoghegan:

I thank the Chair for her question. Our position echoes that of the Irish Heart Foundation. While social media companies have a role to play in this regard, from our point of view the definition of "harmful online content" should put it firmly into legislation that this will be a criminal offence. That is why we are so keen to highlight that issue through this Bill. We are aware that measures have been taken. TikTok engaged with us on some measures it was introducing, rather than the other way around. I refer, for example, to its introduction of warnings on photosensitive content and to its opt-out process that allows one to block seeing future photosensitive content. Because of the attacks that have happened overseas, Twitter has also taken actions in that the GIF images that were within a tweet have been blocked. One can search "epilepsy", "epileptic" and "photosensitive" to ensure that a suite of resources is not there to target a person. These are some of the actions have been taken. I come back to the point that while social media companies have a role to play, it is important to get this reference in legislation to protect people with photosensitive epilepsy.