Adrian Weckler

Yeah, and that's what's slowly happening in Italy.

So thousands of fines have been sent out in Italy since May of last year.

There's a few new waves of fines going out.

As we speak, we are told, as reported in the Italian press.

And it's not just that a distributor gets raided and the lists are perused.

It's the bodies who are allowed to peruse those lists.

So in Ireland...

Any change in the law might, for example, allow Comrec, who is the telecoms regulator, they might be the ones who are allowed to send you out a fine.

So it wouldn't have to be the guards.

It wouldn't have to be the DPP or any of those offices and bodies that we typically associate with pursuing crime.

They want to get it to become an administrative fine.

The burning question...

So in Italy, it starts at 154 euro and it goes up to several thousand euro for repeat offenses.

Greece is talking about fines of even more than that, I think up to 8000 euro, maybe more.

Actually, I need to check the figures on that.

And then Portugal and Belgium are talking about it.

And they're talking about fines in the thousands as well, starting at several hundred and going up to several thousand.

Important to say again.

I don't see any legislation on the books here in Dáil Éireann for that.

I don't even really hear politicians talking about it.