Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The BAI staffing is currently at 36. When the committee was considering pre-legislative scrutiny of this legislation and speaking with the Department, it was indicated to the committee that the commission would need to grow to at least the level of the Data Protection Commission, DPC, at present, which is about 180 full-time equivalents. We are certainly looking at least at that size, and then more if the commission does become the point of agency for the Digital Services Act.