Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 17 November 2020
186. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the development of legislation to provide significant additional powers (details supplied) to ComReg in the form of greater powers of enforcement in particular focusing on customer service as committed to in the Programme for Government; the timeline for such legislation to be brought forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36954/20]
Amharc ar fhreagraComReg 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 protection of consumers. 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.
