Mr. Art O'Leary:

However, we have not had a national event that might attract attention. People speak about Russia all the time, and perhaps China. I was at the Political Studies Association of Ireland conference in Belfast not long ago, where an academic gave a paper saying that the vast majority of misinformation and disinformation in the political sphere right now comes from the United States and Britain. That leads me back to the point I made earlier, that in the three-week general election campaign, we will not waste any time wondering where it came from. Our job is to deal with it. Perhaps later, we or someone else can look at where it came from and whether there might be offences in law, but the important thing for us is to retain the integrity of the electoral process and ensure there is no misinformation or disinformation, which can cause public harm and affect people's perception of the electoral process. That is the key focus.