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

I thank the officials from the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications and ComReg for coming today. We want to see the legislation come through as quickly as possible. Obviously, it has to be robust and there is the Attorney General's advice. I ask the witnesses to advise us on any changes in order that we can come back with pre-legislative scrutiny as quickly as possible. I want to see ComReg having the powers, as we discussed previously, but the powers must be effective and the operators genuinely afraid of them. Otherwise, it is impossible to see them operating in practice. We will do a further body of work on the scams. We wish the witnesses in the deliberations. When does Mr. Mourik think we will see action by ComReg, that it will make known publicly, on the scammers?

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