> In January 2023, DPC was forced to increase the fine issued to Meta Platforms after a review by European Data Protection Board found that the initial fine was insufficient.[12] European Data Protection Board determined that DPC has failed to perform its enforcement responsibility with "due diligence". The critics have pointed out that 7 out of 8 decisions handed down by European Data Protection Board were against the Irish DPC, and that the DPC "always choose the most tortuous, lengthy and expensive legal route to a decision rather than a simple application of EU law".[13]
Not very surprising.
Ireland's entire economy is being based on being a cheap low tax mailbox provider for US Multinationals, trying to bend laws as much as possible in their favor just fits in there
That's why there is a big push on minimum tax rates in the European Union, nobody wants that race to the bottom