Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Niamh Hodnett:

We have left the manner and form of the actual age verification to be implemented by the platform open to the platforms themselves. We are conscious that each platform may have a different approach or that technology may overtake if we were to be too prescriptive in prescribing one particular measure. There are European measures afoot as well as to whether there should be an overall European approach to age verification. I will hand over to my colleague, Karen McAuley, who is on that committee.