Ms Sabha Greene:

That is the obligation in the regulation and the purpose behind it is because if one thinks about the name of the role, which is co-ordinator, the EU recognised that illegal content is being dealt with, as correctly pointed out by the Deputy, by several different agencies and the position is the same, obviously, in each member state. The EU wanted to have one co-ordinator in each member state to pull together all of that information so that it could get a picture.

Now, every time, for example, the Health Products Regulatory Authority issues a take-down order for illegal medicines or medical devices, then that information will go, in our case to Coimisiún na Meán and it will be put into a central IT system for all of the digital services co-ordinators around Europe. This is because of the cross-border nature of the services and is designed so that everyone will know that X platform has been told to take down illegal OxyContin, or something like that. That is why we need one body at the centre as a co-ordinator.

There is illegal content, where child sexual abuse material was mentioned earlier, which will still be the responsibility of the Garda to follow up. The Garda still will be dealing directly with the platforms but Coimisiún na Meán will need to know about that in order that it can inform other people that this has been taken down from the platforms.

The big focus is not only enforcing but is also in being that co-ordinator. One has to understand that there are two things going on here. There are individual pieces of content where any individual instance of illegal videos or medical devices will be pursued by the regulator which is responsible for that sector-----