Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 13 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with National Anti-Bullying Coalition

9:55 am

Mr. Paul C. Dwyer:

The deficiency stems from responsibility. The legislation should appoint somebody to be responsible 24-seven as a point of contact for the country of Ireland who can co-operate with others to deal with these incidents. Such a person or entity would then have a stick with which to beat the providers to ensure they played along and played fair with everybody else. We need this level of co-operation in a treaty to empower this. Otherwise people will decide their back garden is fine and they are okay, and we will not deal with the holistic problem. We need to be part of a global solution instead of having something confined and narrow.

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