Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

How will that delay affect the timeline for the passage of the Bill? The Minister has said we may have to regulate on an EU basis. Has that been absolutely confirmed? Even if that is the case, it should not prevent us from going forward with this. Funding could be sourced through Europe and, of course, the big technology companies could also fund the individual complaints mechanism. Something like that should not deter us. If we are successful in what we are doing, other European Union countries will follow suit. There is no reason we cannot take the lead in this.

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