Mr. Dualta Ó Broin:

I am happy to respond. I was also confused by the headline on RTÉ this morning. Coming back to our position on this legislation, if the fully resourced and staffed media commission could be established today, we would be more than happy to engage with it on both the AVMS directive aspects and on national legislative measures right across the board. There are aspects of it, such as the requirements on interpersonal communication services, which we do not think are feasible to implement. However, what we are saying is that given that we are where we are now, and the Digital Services Act is coming down the track, and from the timeline that I have set out it is likely that it could be in place before the media commission is fully staffed and this legislation is fully implemented, the priority should be to implement the EU online safety law that was agreed in 2018 and to focus on that. We have identified 17 areas in respect of which the Digital Services Act and the digital services co-ordinator's role are likely to overlap with the role which is set out in the general scheme of the Bill. It might be more prudent and a more efficient use of resources-----