Ms Celene Craig:

Given the principles, our understanding of regulation and our significant expertise in policy development and bearing in mind that we have been very involved in the planning, including at European level, of the audiovisual media services, AVMS, directive and the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill, we believe the BAI staff have a great deal to bring to that. It is useful that a core group of staff will be available to get many of the functions of the media commission up and running at an early point. Obviously, the extension of staff will be vital. Over time, as this is rolled out, it will be necessary to review this and consider the need for additional areas of expertise or also additional staff. There are other ways of working with our fellow regulators at European level and other ways of working with academic interests and so on that can be very helpful in this kind of situation where we are rolling out very novel legislation.