Eoin Hayes (Dublin Bay South, Social Democrats)

I imagine Dr. Evans is more familiar with a lot of these things than I am but by way of anecdote, I was an intern in Google in 2011. I sat alongside a lot of these policy teams and a lot of the other interns were on the policy teams. A lot of those policy teams then became subcontractors. Accenture and other major consulting firms were engaging with companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter, as it was at the time, to build these policy teams. From a legislative and oversight perspective, do we have sufficient resources to keep up with misinformation and disinformation, in particular when the number of users is higher and AI is in some ways corrupting the information environment? Back then, there were thousands of people in Dublin whose exclusive focus was reviewing things like YouTube ads and things that were going up on the Internet that were flagged. I know technology can play a role in making those processes more efficient and perhaps that happened in the intervening years but I am concerned at a European level, not just domestic, about whether we have the sufficient resources and we enable Coimisiún na Meán to do that work on behalf of the Irish State and the European Union.