Ms Liz Carolan:

With regard to the electoral period, we know that campaigns, including malign information operations, will start well before an electoral period and will often use things like political advertisements to drive people into groups online, which can then be mobilised during electoral periods. It makes sense for restrictions on legitimate political actors to be confined to the electoral period in accordance with the values in our current electoral law. However, I do not see any reason transparency provisions cannot be live all the time. This will also enable civil society, journalists etc., to forensically look back and investigate what is going on when things start happening during an electoral period. We need that information to be there and to be available. In terms of whether there is a need for-----