Mr. Barry Ryan:

With regard to Parts 4 and 5, we notified them to the European Commission at the time, as we were required to do. It issued a detailed opinion on Part 4 and issued us some observations on Part 5. We have worked with it on these concerns which, as Deputy Ó Broin said, were mainly with regard to compliance with the e-commerce directive. Alongside of this is the EU's own regulation on political advertising, on which it has been working. Over the past 12 months we have been working very closely on this and probably on a weekly basis feeding into the deliberations on it. The Swedish Presidency had great hopes of getting it over the line before the summer but it did not happen. The Spanish Presidency has made it a priority and it is now close to finalisation.