Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In terms of the risk assessment to protect citizens, what are the domains of that? A lot of us are concerned about the impact on mental health and on younger people. A lot of us, certainly in politics, feel deliberative democracy is under threat from these instantaneous conclusions that people can reach in this very mobile world. What are the actual dimensions where risk assessment needs to be done at a practical level by these platforms? When it comes to equipping our regulator to interface with them, it seems to me quite a complex range of skills are needed to decide whether mental health is being endangered by social media access at a certain age. Those sort of things are quite complex and tricky, so how is the risk ask set for the platforms and the regulator to oversee?