Bernard O'Shea

Because they're saying here, I see Accenture, for example, there's interesting phraseology there, has warned it will exit staff who cannot be retrained for using AI in day-to-day business.

So that's important conversations we need to have around AI and the future of our young people and what they're going to work at and what we're all going to work at and how we're going to occupy our time and about the distribution of wealth and all those big questions.

And then there's the climate crisis and then there's the social media thing and then there's, oh my word, there's a lot going on, isn't there?

I see Greece are banning social media for under-16s.

and that's going to come into effect from 1st of January, 2027.

We haven't done anything like that yet.

We're considering it.

I think what we're doing is we're looking into getting some sort of wallet thing and we're waiting for European legislation and we're hoping that the tech companies will take it upon themselves to introduce

age limits, etc.

But that ain't going to happen.

They're not going to self-regulate.

They've had enough time now to self-regulate and they're not going to do it.

So it needs governments to step in and that's what's happening in Greece.

Spain, Malaysia, Denmark and Poland are considering a ban or in the process of legislating for one.

Of course, Australia introduced it last year.

France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and the UK showed approval for restrictions in research by YouGov.

So a lot of countries are either considering it or introducing it.

And why are we not doing it?

Well, I suppose if you're cynical, the answer is that we have skin in the game.

in that a lot of social media companies have their HQ in Ireland.