Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Craig. To pick up on the point made by Deputy Munster, do the representatives of the DPC and the BAI believe there are sufficient sanctions, deterrents or penalties for not adhering to the regulation? That is an important point. Reference was made to self-regulation, but how will that be policed? How can we implement deterrents or penalties? Ms Morgan referred to 4,000 complaints being made in 2020. How many of those complaints involved apparent enforcement breaches of the GDPR and the Data Protection Act? How many of those could be issues for the online regulator?

On the BAI being subsumed within the media commission, what challenges do the witnesses see coming down the road with the Bill being enacted? What is the BAI working group undertaking with regard to the forthcoming EU legislation? What enhancement will that present to the general scheme of the Bill?

The commission will be funded by an industry levy, with online services required to pay for the first time. What will be the benefits of that? I ask the representatives of the BAI to contribute first.