Ms Tríona Quill:

As the Senator may know, the report of the commission has not yet been brought to Government and so we are not in a position to comment on that.

The Senator asked if there are enough safeguards to deal with disinformation. It is recognised that disinformation is probably one of the most challenging types of harmful content to regulate effectively for because it involves so much rights balancing. People have the right to freedom of speech and there are other concerns that must be balanced against the undoubted harm being done by widespread disinformation. The view across Europe was that something should be done at European level to take a unified approach on it. Mr. Cuddihy has set out the mechanism under the DSA where this might be addressed. It is a matter of seeing how effective that regime is in practice over time and seeing what additional measures might be required at European level.