Bernard O'Shea

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.

I'm just looking at it there.

So Meta, European HQ in Dublin, X European HQ in Dublin, TikTok European HQ in Dublin.

And then Google and they also own YouTube, European HQ in Dublin, Snap Inc who owns Snapchat.

It isn't our HQ, but they have major operations here in Ireland.

We're a very small country and we depend a lot for jobs and tax revenue on foreign investment.

And so we have to be careful how we thread there and what we do and what signal we send out to the rest of Europe because they'll be watching.