Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 September 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán

2:00 am

Mr. Wayne Moroney:

What we are describing is the co-ordinated action on pornography that is taking place. This is ongoing work with other digital services co-ordinators and the European Commission. The goal is obviously to intervene with these platforms and take action against them. The first step is a categorisation and mapping piece whereby each location is responsible for identifying and understanding what services there are under its remit and then, possibly locally, a bit of prioritisation as well. The next step is to engage these platforms and ensure they are doing their best and are in compliance with the DSA to protect children and to make sure they are engaging with the DSA and with their obligations. Subsequent to that, we will be looking at potential enforcement action. Every step here is one that will be done in co-ordination with other DSCs in order that we can learn from them and they can learn from us, we can understand that we are all moving together as one and that we are largely taking similar actions at the same time. I suppose it is bringing a fairly large boot to the table, the goal being that we tackle and identify all platforms and we work as best we can to close those gaps the Senator is speaking about, namely platforms that are maybe not identified or do not appear to be under our remit straight away.

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