Mr. Ronan Costello:

I might come in on the first question and then on how we worked with the Parliament, as an institution, prior to European elections. The elections in 2019 were in late May and we started talking to the Parliament team in September of the previous year. The team is apolitical. It is tasked with ensuring that the elections go off without a hitch, that the process is constructive, and that the dialogue is as informative as it can be. The benefit is that it is one project team speaking to another project team. Each of us has a single point of contact. We both know who to contact so there is an escalation route. In September, we began a conversation. Around November, a cohort from Dublin, including myself, went to Brussels to join our colleagues who work in Brussels full-time, and we gave a training session to all available MEPs and their staff on Twitter safety, trust and safety expectations that they could have, and our rules, policies and escalation routes, etc.

That work continued from there, right through from November 2018 until the election concluded on 26 May 2019. As I said, the benefit of that throughout was that there was no ambiguity as to who to reach out to in the event of X. That would be the constructive advantage of an electoral commission in Ireland.