Michael McGrath
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234 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 14 May
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And if you're two hours into a queue, I think you should know that the ticket you're queuing for is now charging, selling at €300, for example.
Before you get to the checkout.
So these are basic pro-consumer measures that I think we should be implementing and which fall under my responsibility as Consumer Protection.
A number of member states are already doing that and have introduced or announced legislation.
I do think it's better that we have an EU-wide approach to this issue.
And that's why, as I've said, come the summer, midsummer, there will be a decision by the European Commission on this issue.
Absolutely.
I will await the final report from the expert panel because they will make recommendations to us.
I'm not convinced how effective or how implementable a hard ban will be.
We are trying to develop the toolbox.
Yeah, let's wait and see.
And we are examining that model and we have brought forward an EU age verification app that's now ready and complete.
So one part of the question is, what is it that you want to do?
And then the second part is, well, are you able to do it and how can you do it?
So we have to make sure that we can answer the second part as well.
But it could well be that the answer is in the area of more parental control, turning off certain settings by default, dealing with issues like infinite scrolling and so on.
So we're looking at all of that.
But one option is an actual age restriction.
But we need to be sure that we can implement it and that it will actually work in practice.
So we have extensive legislation in place in the EU already to deal with these issues.
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