Regulatory Bodies

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 25 May 2021

Tuesday, 25 May 2021

Questions (75)

Brendan Griffin

Question:

75. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 11 May 2021, when the proposals to strengthen the enforcement regime of the Commission for Communications Regulation will be published; the reason that these proposals have been in draft form for the past two years; if the proposals will strengthen enforcement in the area of both mobile and broadband; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27916/21]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications

ComReg currently has a suite of enforcement and sanction powers available to it in regulating the telecommunications sector. Transposition of the European Electronic Communications Code, a new European regulatory framework will, inter alia, further ensure effective consumer protection and includes enforcement measures which should in turn further enhance competition and innovation. Against the backdrop of the transposition of the Code, my Department, in collaboration with ComReg, is developing proposals to further strengthen ComReg's enforcement regime, as committed to in the Programme for Government, with a view to developing draft legislative proposals.