Professor Deirdre Ahern:

Briefly, Coimisiún na Meán, which has come into force and is well resourced, is now working from a place of strength in relation to an online safety code for children and for the public. More developments have been in play more recently.

We have some useful pushbacks to ensure that there is protection.

Believe it or not, the EU is now working on a way to make social media apps less addictive. We will see how that goes. There are some things on which Coimisiún na Meán is working. It is not just one-way, as Deputy O'Rourke said, and that the big tech companies are not accountable. They are also accountable for whether they use our data to train their models. A number of cases have been taken by the Data Protection Commission there. There is a measured digital rule book in place and our regulators are enforcing it. In the last number of years, it has been happening a little bit, which is of interest. There is always more to do, however.