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:

Maybe, but maybe not, judging by my own phone. What we have done on the international side is we have blocked both on the mobile and on the fixed side people using Irish numbers to dial into Ireland from abroad. That is no longer possible. At the very outset of this when it started to become something of an epidemic, you would have been getting calls from Irish numbers with very funny numbers and stuff like that. They were originating from abroad, far away from Ireland.

That is not possible anymore. We have blocked both of those possibilities.

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