Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment
Engagement with the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission
2:00 am
Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
Okay, which makes it a little more difficult, as Mr. McHugh said before.
I want to move on to the online sector. The commission has issued press statements before warning people about fake websites that say "Shop Cork", "Shop Ireland", etc., and they are totally fake. On the likes of Facebook, there are ads that tell people to do tai chi and they will be ripped in six weeks. Does the commission have any role in tackling those types of companies, or is it all left up to Coimisiún na Meán in terms of misinformation? Can the commission say to Meta that it is putting ads up that are totally fake and tell it to take them down or it will be fined? Have there been any cases where the commission has actually fined them? I would be interested in that.
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