Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán

2:00 am

Dr. John Evans:

The last digital strategy produced by the Government committed to well-resourced regulators in the digital space. That is borne out by our experience. We got up and running remarkably quickly for a State agency and moved from 40 to 250 quickly. Not all are working in online safety. Some are working in more traditional broadcast sectors, media development areas and so on. We have further sanction that will bring us to about 300. As we continue to develop our pipeline of cases as they come through, we may need more resources for some of those areas, but at the moment we are getting what we have asked for.

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