Mr. George Merrigan:

The issue of text messages is very complicated. For example, in our nuisance communications information forum, we have 59 member organisations from around the world, and there are 94 organisations on our SMS sender ID list. It is a complicated matter trying to integrate 94 networks but that is the work that we been doing so far. That piece of work just focuses on the sender ID registry. We are hopeful that we can do more in the SMS space, maybe through content filtering and the likes of things we see in other European countries. We would like to be able to bring more of those things forward. We are working with our colleagues in the Department and we are hopeful we can get legislation to that end.