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

Photo of Peter CleerePeter Cleere (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)

It is really important, and if the media are listening in, it is really important that this message gets out there. We have a lot of information. We publish information notices on this and there is a lot of information on our website. To be fair, great efforts have been made by the industry. A lot of players are involved. People talk about the telecommunications network, but it is actually a web of different networks, so there is a lot of interconnection involved and it can be tricky.

To come back to the point on SMS, at the moment we are working on the sender ID registry. This is settling down very well now. We are moving along with that in terms of some of the technical implementation issues that some of the operators have had in the field. There are 94 entities involved in ComReg's circle of trust, providing for the provision of SMS.

We have a great interest in content scanning. We have seen that being done abroad. We have been talking to our colleagues here about getting-----

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