> At the center of the dispute is Ireland, which has outsize influence over the law’s enforcement because Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter are all based there. The country is responsible for leading more investigations, 127, than any other country in Europe, according to Brave.
> [...]
> Last year, Ireland’s data protection regulator sought a budget increase of €5.9 million. It got a third of that amount.
> Helen Dixon, the chair of Ireland’s data protection agency, said she was frustrated by the budget restrictions but defended the work of her office.
> She graded Ireland’s performance an “A for effort” but a “C-plus/B-minus in terms of output.”
Basically, the current Irish government administration, responsible for funding the DPC, is not a fan of GDPR.
For anyone interested in reading more about the Irish DPC's frustrations, Cianan Brennan[0][1] of the Irish Examiner is pretty dogged in his coverage of all things Helen Dixon & DPC (he's basically the main journalist covering GDPR in the main country tasked with enforcing GDPR), including her various[2][3][4] battles with the Irish government on their own GDPR-compliance.
[0] https://twitter.com/ciananbrennan
[1] https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/authors/cianan-br...
[2] https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/over-6700...
[3] https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/analysis/ci...
[4] https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/psc-data-...