Ciarán Cudahy

Are you in favour of this ban?

So, ultimately, like, yeah, tell me if I'm wrong on this.

Is your position, yes, ban it, but it has to also include dismantling the addictive design and the other malign elements of the design of these platforms, serious fines for any breaches of these regulations, including preventing those platforms from operating in the country if they keep breaching the regulations.

Is that it?

This is March decision in March.

A jury said they were addictive by design is what they they concluded.

This was one particular young woman's mental health, they said, had been damaged by the algorithm which was designed to be addictive, I think was.

The landmark nature of the judgment.

Sorry, Eimear, stay with us because I just want to bring in David.

People feel really strongly about this.

David, do you think a much more robust approach, including a ban, is the way to do this?

...recognition system on a smartphone or a laptop.

Your PPS number, they're saying it would be attached to.

I know, but your children... You were on TikTok, you said, so your PPS number would be tied to your account.

Your children then couldn't use the same PPS number.

It'd be like trying to register with the same email that says, sorry, this account already exists.

Yeah.

It's not going to work.

It's the job of parents.

Should we give up banning heroin then?