Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Ms Greene is satisfied that the Minister would be satisfied that would happen. The committee has no knowledge of the level of resources the Media Commission has, how it functions or how it can take on this work. It strikes me that this is incredibly important, and it would really suit people who want to be able to circumvent the rules.

I am not suggesting anyone would, but if someone were to do so, it would suit him or her if there were that level of ambiguity. It is a bit like compulsory but not mandatory. Technically, the responsibility for regulation of industry will lie with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment but in reality it will be done through another area. With more than 45 million users, it would be a very powerful bad actor and that entity would be in a very good position to exploit that ambiguity. For that reason, I do not think it is ideal. We need to be belt, braces and baler twine about this to get it right. There is already a grey area in relation to responsibility and I think there should be very clean lines.