Ms Sabha Greene:

On the funding, again, that is something we need to scope out. In conversations with the Commission, it has not ruled out that the digital services co-ordinator, DSC, could be funded by a levy, a little like as is proposed for the media commission, provided, obviously, there are proper safeguards in place to ensure the DSC is entirely independent. I may not have entirely understood about how we regulate at the moment. The Digital Services Act, DSA, is, of course, premised on the country of origin. That means the DSC will have responsibility for dealing with any platform service provider that is established and has its headquarters in Ireland.

As I have said, there has been a slight change in the enforcement model, which means the Commission will have a role in investigating and enforcing against the very large online platforms. Clearly, some of those platforms will be the ones that are in scope or that are based in Ireland. That does not mean the national DSC will be out of the picture. It will still have a role in supporting the Commission, for example, perhaps, organising search warrants and things like that. There will be a co-ordination role there, so there is still a good piece of work the DSC will have to do here.

The DSC will have some functions it must carry out itself, including enforcing the due diligence obligations in the DSA, investigating all of that, and, of course, receiving complaints that come from users in other member states. Once the complaint is against a platform or a service provider that is established here, our DSC will be in the frame for that. As I said, it will have to establish connections almost immediately with all of the sectoral regulators that deal with different aspects of illegal content, be in a position to ensure it is aware of any action that any of those sectoral regulators are taking, and be able to pass that information on to the DSCs in the other members states. There is going to be quite a bit of information sharing across the network of the EU member state DSCs. That, in itself, will probably be quite a job. I hope that answers the Deputy's question. Perhaps he was looking for more aspects.