Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank our guests for their participation and interest in all of this. I guess the unique position Ireland is in, in having so many of the big tech companies here, puts that huge emphasis and burden on the Irish system. Of course, we recognise that every country in Europe has similar issues. Many issues have been raised and I fully accept that our guests know that the work we did in the report was our best attempt to try to look at these issues. Some of the problems that are there, naturally enough, will require legislative change. We may be required to change or amend statutory instruments to get this right. We have to recognise the development of all of these technologies and the whole sphere of how the Internet has reached into people's lives and how many of these data companies have huge power is something that is evolving all the time. We are going to need to have flexibility. What we can do here or in Europe today may be out of date in two years' time. It may need to be continually resolved and evolving. That aspect of it is something that we need to collectively work on with the MEPs and the other data protection authorities in each country across the European Union.