Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence and Children and Young People: Discussion
2:00 am
Ms Alex Cooney:
We have guardrails now in a way that we did not two years ago through the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act and the Digital Services Act. We would argue that neither goes far enough on addressing risk. For example, the online safety code does not address the recommender algorithm. It deferred to the Digital Services Act for that. When we look at the wording of the Digital Services Act, it is not very strong. We are missing an opportunity. We have got to look at enforcement. If the language is too vague we will not be able to enforce it. To our minds, that is a really important gap to address.