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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I do not have a problem with section 19 per se.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: How is it to be determined that a vendor is a high-risk vendor? What procedures are in place to challenge such a determination? I noticed that one can take an appeal to the High Court. I may be misreading this but it seems the Minister can offer information to the High Court to justify his or her decision and require that this information not be provided to a party to the appeal. Although...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I get all that, but is what I have outlined what is proposed?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: The information that the Minister has which supports that assertion is provided to the court but is unavailable to the other party. Is that really being proposed?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: That information will not be provided to the person who is appealing the decision.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: It is an extraordinary proposition in law that we are going to legislate to the effect that the Minister can make such a decision. Someone from the American Embassy could call, for example. Is there anyone here wearing a trench coat who I might offend? Perhaps someone from the Russian Embassy, if we are friends again, or the Chinese Embassy might call. Let us be honest that this is really...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I was referring to the section of the Bill which outlines that failure to respond to the notice has criminal consequences.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Where would the information come from to justify that?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: The security services of which State?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: We have an extensive security service in China, have we?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Let us be honest, we are talking about Chinese components here.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: From where are we going to get the information? I do not think we have a security service that operates outside of our State. Where would we get the information to suggest that components being manufactured in another state pose a threat?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: From where will that centre get the information?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Those bodies do not operate outside the State. From where are they going to get that information?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: I want to focus on two issues. In terms of appalling vistas, a judge once dismissed the whole idea of an appalling vista. He was a very good judge, one of the better ones on the Bench in England and Wales at the time. Unfortunately, the appalling vista came to pass, so they do happen. The idea is not to provide powers that enable them to happen. I see one of the officials finds this...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Do I understand correctly that it is ComReg that enforces this?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Yes, but the courts can only enforce something in Ireland, obviously. The Minister of State said the supervision regime is by ComReg. Is the Minister of State saying that it can be enforced against a multinational operating in Ireland even if the component itself is located in Israel, for example?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Japan, China, Israel and so on are all countries with very advanced high-tech sectors. What did the Minister of State say ComReg was going to do?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: Okay. So ComReg will go to Israel or Japan to supervise this?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Michael McNamara: ComReg has great difficulty in supervising mobile phone access in rural County Clare much less giving them powers or requiring them to supervise something in Israel or the Xinjiang province in China, or take your pick of locations around the world.