Mr. Tiernan Kenny:

It depends on the exact service in question. With regard Coimisiún na Meán's role under the DSA there is an obligation on the platforms to set out clearly the terms and conditions for using the service. That includes that, when the service is available to children, those terms and conditions are set out in a way that is understandable to children. Some of the consent stuff the Deputy is talking about is more typically for the processing of personal data, so that is the kind of thing that might be included in the terms of service. It would be a decision for the platforms, I think, whether they would feel they would have to change the wording of their terms and conditions sufficiently that someone would need to consent again. The general practice is that the service tends to ask people, when it makes changes to the terms and conditions, to ensure they still consent to using the service. That really is a question for the platforms as to when they make changes to their terms and conditions.