Ms Fiona Jennings:

I am happy to take the second question on splitting the Bill. We see the points that are being made in that regard. There is an urgency for the transposition of the audiovisual media services directive and, in terms of splitting it, then to remove the national legislative proposal, the online safety commissioner, which we are discussing today. We have major concerns about that. We have been campaigning for this for some time and we feel there is a great deal of good in the current proposal. However, the glaring absence, and we are making this point today and it has been made previously at committee meetings, is the lack of an individual complaints mechanism. We are informed by officials that they are having conversations with the EU Commission and they appear to be confident that it is aligning with what the Digital Services Act is proposing. The Digital Services Act proposes a much more robust complaints mechanism. If they are to align and there is minimum disruption when the Digital Services Act comes into place, we probably need to pay a little more attention to that. We certainly ask the committee to pay more attention to what is happening in that regard as well.

In respect of the Garda and resourcing for the Bill, briefly, we know that criminal content will not be a significant aspect of the Bill. However, from our relationship with the Garda National Protective Services Bureau, it always needs additional resources, whether in personnel or resources for the technologies it uses to speed up that process. We certainly would not argue, and I doubt that the Garda would argue either, with the need for additional resources there.