Malcolm Noonan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The Senator made excellent points. Mr. Ryan might come in on this but generally our ambition with the electoral commission is to start with a specific set of functions and that will be ramped up over time. There is a risk in trying to load too heavy a workload onto it. The Senator makes a really good point in relation to this space. On the issue of digital ad boards, perhaps they could be regulated by local authority by-laws. I am not sure. On trusted source news, all of that is something the commission could engage in a piece of research on with a view, perhaps, to the Oireachtas coming back with legislation on it. The Senator is correct that Twitter and Facebook acted very late in the day. It took the storming of Capitol Hill for them to act so there is an issue there. I ask Mr. Ryan to come in on that point around the commission's functions and how those functions would evolve over time.