Ms Celene Craig:

Yes. The range of sanctions envisaged by the legislation is fairly wide-ranging and we certainly support that. It will be very important for the media commission to introduce at a very early stage a reporting regime for the online platforms in scope and that it is in a position to take a view with regard to their performance under various elements of the legislation. It is really around the good design of a proper performance, compliance and enforcement regime for all of the platforms that are designated for regulation under the general scheme. I expect that a key priority for the media commission will be to ensure there is a good design in that scheme for assessing performance and ensuring compliance and, if there is not compliance, then ensuring there is enforcement. The range of provisions and the powers required to support the media commission in that regard are very well set out within the scheme.

With regard to sanctions, and financial sanctions in particular, there is very high expectation from our European counterparts in the regulatory area that those ultimate sanctions, particularly around financial sanctions, should be available to any regulator in this area. There is also a strong expectation that not only will those powers be available to the commission, but they will actually be utilised and enforced where necessary. That may have been the experience also of the Data Protection Commissioner.