Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick County, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am entirely with the Deputy on this. I have met the European Commission around this and I have asked the European Commission the very blunt and very straight question of what could be more important for us as legislators than the protection of our children online in this space. Procrastination and fudging has gone on at a European level for a long time. Europe is going to have to react with a singular voice in this space. I hope that Ireland uses our presidency of the European Council to be able to distil down some of the arguments and some of the conversations that are needed to be held on this. Some member states are not in the same space as Ireland. Some people will say there are other rights that are more important than the right of a child to be protected. I have a bit of an issue with that.