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- 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.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: Once Ireland makes that order one must take their word for it that they have complied, if it is outside of Ireland-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: -----or will these people in trench coats who gave the information in the first place be in a position to give the information that the orders are not being complied with?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: Is it an extraterritorial power of entry?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: The physical presence of components is something they will not be able to see from Ireland.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: Around the world outside of Ireland.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: As regards-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: It is, but surely with regard to verification, one can ask them for information but they are not in a position to verify its veracity, or are they, if it is outside of Ireland?
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: Well not really, but I am not in a position to call a vote on it.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: I would like some clarification on this.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: Yes, this whole-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: Am I correct that amendment No. 6 introduces the-----
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: Do I understand correctly that any manufacturer that is headquartered in or based in a country that is determined to be undemocratic, and where the manufacturer could be under the control of that undemocratic regime, and that they could come under the influence of that government, can be determined a high-risk vendor? I am struggling to see that this is sufficient to have them determined as...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: Yes, the assessment of a high-risk vendor.
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: My point was that any vendor in that country can be deemed to be a high-risk vendor. The vendor does not necessarily have to pose any particular risk to the security of this State. The Minister of State moved from risk to the security of the State to shoddy components very quickly. That would indicate that this Bill is very broad in its scope and has significant capability to impact upon...
- Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Communications Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Oct 2022)
Michael McNamara: What directive?