Ms Helen Dixon:

The phone market, as I said, is deregulated. It was deregulated at EU level. It would be necessary for Ireland to suggest, based on a three-step test, that there was clear evidence that this was a market which did need to be regulated. Perhaps the best thing to do would be to deal with the Deputy offline and collect information from him on the specifics of what he is identifying.

In respect of the potential data protection issue, it seems very unusual that there could be any confusion between advertisement messages and service messages-----