Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

General Scheme of the Communications Regulation (Enforcement) Bill: Discussion

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, the Chairman got to the crux of the matter. In fairness to ComReg, when its representatives were previously before the committee, they said they did not have the tools required to do business, to do right by the consumer and to put pressure on mobile phone providers and others. We hope this legislation will provide those tools. We have a piece of work to do in that regard.

Our guests have dealt with the other pieces of secondary legislation. There was mention of the task force around nuisance scam calls. I recently got a call from New Zealand that was legitimate but I did not answer it. The person calling sent me a text message that said he cannot get anybody to answer his call because that is the way it is. I rang him back, our guests will be pleased to know. Who is on the task force? Our guests have give the general timeline for it and said there are already a number of options on the table that they are considering enacting. What are those options? Can our guests go into that detail?

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