Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is a different kettle of fish but I accept we are now looking at issues we were not looking at to the same degree. We are in an age of asymmetrical warfare, hybrid operations and cyber. The Russian state has always had a particular relationship with certain actions. We have all had to access our personal security and those pieces need to be dealt with.

It crosses over into the two other things Ms Jourová spoke about earlier: how we secure the electoral process and how we deal with the age of online media. We all know what was thrown out in relation to the election in America and Brexit. When you are down to small figures, it does not take a huge amount to get somebody across the line. We have also seen state and non-state actors being able to use online platforms, particularly Facebook. It is almost there. It is not that they have to weaponise it. They can use it. We have the Digital Services Act and Ms Jourová spoke about the European Media Freedom Act. We have in this State the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill, but I do not know that it sufficiently gets into dealing with the issue of the algorithms which sometimes suit certain people of confrontational politics. Beyond that, there is the spread of misinformation, which is everything from information that can be harmful to young people who have issues with eating disorders right through to negative politics that lead to a really bad place. We need to defend that. I ask Ms Jourová about that, and if she can answer in two minutes, I will be impressed.