Ireland’s central role “enforcing” Europe’s digital rules and regulations “cannot be delivered without an adequate level of resources”, four watchdogs warned recently. In a joint letter to senior officials in the Department of the Taoiseach last month, the regulators appealed for additional funding to respond to a growing workload. The letter, signed by the heads of the Data Protection Commission (DPC), Coimisiún na Meán, ComReg and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC), pushed the Government to address “resourcing concerns”. Previous Irish governments faced sustained criticism of failing to staff properly Ireland’s data protection watchdog in the run up to the introduction of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in 2018. The Government was committed to “ensuring our digital regulators are sufficiently resourced to deliver a modern, cohesive regulatory framework that is responsive to the evolving digital age”, the spokesman said.

Source: The Irish Times January 28, 2026 07:30 UTC