James Geoghegan (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)

Grace said something that shocked but did not surprise me during the questioning about recommender algorithms: that in her feed, the video of Charlie Kirk being murdered popped up on her screen. It is something I have been very concerned about, that a whole generation of people, not just in Ireland but around the world, are seeing videos that my generation would never have seen. Yet, if we turn on our public broadcasters that have licences, the adults, mostly, I presume, watching the news are protected from seeing that video. That single incident illustrates just how badly we, as states and supra-states like the EU, are responding.

No company is being held accountable for broadcasting a murder to millions of young people who did not want to see that murder on their screens. Nobody has been held to account for that. That is something we really have to tackle.