Shane Cassells (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On that point, Mr. Hempenstall spoke about not calling for new legislation but Art O'Leary from the Electoral Commission made the point before the recent elections a couple of weeks ago that the commission still does not have the legal powers to direct social media companies to take down online media material that is damaging to the electoral process. Instead, it can just warn of reputational damage to companies which it believes might be enough. Mr. O'Leary spoke about the cyber risk and how the UK electoral commission had been compromised by a China-based cyber group. The same could happen here, notwithstanding the fact that they are tested by the National Cyber Security Centre.

I ask for a comment on Mr. O'Leary's view.