Malcolm Byrne (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to focus on where we are going regarding the regulation of some of the social media companies. In a sense, I have great admiration for the challenge being taken on, but I am not sure if its scale has been fully realised in respect of the convergence of new technologies and the regulation of social media companies in that context.

Moving on the matter of the metaverse and augmented and virtual reality, this is a space we are moving into. Regarding the work of the new media commission, do the witnesses see, and this will be an issue in both their respective terms, a role for the BAI, and then the soon-to-be media commission, in regulating the metaverse? If not, in respect of the media commission, where will responsibility lie for regulating it?