Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport

Communications Regulation and Network Resilience: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. George Merrigan:

So far, we have taken six specific actions. I might come back to the content scanning piece thereafter. Five of those actions, as I explained just before the Deputy came in, are on the voice side. I will not call them out again. We need to look at this in the round because scams are best perpetrated through a mix of text and voice. On the voice side, the five interventions that we have introduced have already succeeded in the last year of blocking over 120 million scam calls going to consumers in Ireland. On the SMS side-----

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