Mr. Ronan Lupton:

There are a number of issues we would like to summarise in what we think the committee can do to assist the market and bring better services to the communities and constituents that they serve. ComReg needs bigger and better fining and civil sanction powers. Nine regulators have submitted a document to both the Law Reform Commission and various Ministers under a consultation process that sets out the position. We support that fully and wholeheartedly. They need the teeth to regulate the market. While that sounds like a turkey wishing from Christmas, if there is no incentive to behave, the regulator cannot do what it needs to.