Kieran O'Donnell (Limerick City, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The question for me is quite simple. Obviously, if the broadband providers, mobile providers and telephone providers do not have enough of a deterrent, they are going to let this run on and, every so often, they will be given a slap on the wrist. What is the draconian measure that can be brought in by ComReg to ensure that mobile providers, when they are sitting down and planning, will know they need to put additional staff in this area because the last thing they need is to have ComReg on their backs, costing them money and preventing them from doing their work? How do we get to that space? My worry is that they will bat away the compensation scheme and adjudicate it.

Mr. Mourik will appreciate our role, although I might have been a bit hard. Our role is to assist in getting robust legislation that will work in practice. I want a situation where the mobile provider is sitting down and saying, “We do not want those shaggers from ComReg harassing us because they are going to hit us with fines and stop us doing business.” When do we get to that space?