Ms Birgit Sippel:

I thank Ms Pagazaurtundúa. I do not believe there is much I should add right now. There is a common line, between what we have heard from Deputy Costello and I understand that Senator Ruane is going in a similar direction when it comes to an independent review to find out what is going on and on the function of the three commissioners that should be there too. It is remarkable that Ireland's Data Protection Commission, DPC, having similar resources to many others in the European Union, does not deliver the same number of clear results. There are a lot of big tech companies here, so Ireland might have more complaints than other member states, but the DPC is not even delivering the same number of results as others. There must be some reasons behind this. It is good to have an independent review to find out what is going on.

There was another question that may have been directed more to Ms Clare Daly, but I would also like to go into it. The question was on the review of GDPR. To be honest, I am not in favour of opening GDPR to do a review. We should, however, think about making more use of the European Data Protection Board, EDPB, and the data protection authorities, DPAs, have started to do this, to ensure the interpretation of the rules on GDPR are used in the same way, or in a very similar way, all over the European Union. With that, we might even increase the way in which the different DPAs in the different member states can support each other to ensure there is a level playing field and the same rules are used with the same interpretation all over the EU. That would be my first answer to the question on the review of GDPR and the role of the EDPB. That role is very important in this situation.