Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Crucially for us , given that we are establishing a media commission that is going to deal with many of these issues anyway, does it not make sense that to leave it to the commission rather than looking at setting up an entirely new agency? My question related to the scale of the operation, particularly given the companies that are based in Ireland for which this regulator will have responsibility. The media commission will have a couple of hundred staff. I think we are going to be looking at several hundred, or more, staff, to be able to ensure that this operation functions effectively. We do not want to see a Data Protection Commission-type of situation.