Mr. Ciarán Shanley:

The media commission will make online safety codes, media codes and media rules in accordance with the provisions set out in the legislation. The codes and rules will then be laid before the Oireachtas, which will have an opportunity to use a negative resolution procedure to vote down the codes if it believes them to exceed the competence of the media commission. As the media commission will be an independent regulator, the exact nature of the codes will be a matter for the commission, as required by European law.