Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

In developing Government legislation on an online safety commissioner, we will adopt the principles set out in some of the Private Members' Bills, particularly provisions defining harmful content which listed issues such as cyberbullying, creating suicidal intent and so on. We will look at how we accommodate those. Nonetheless, getting legislation through the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel requires the Attorney General's sanction for the different elements. A number of elements of these Private Members' Bills run into significant problems. While we can transpose significant blocks of these Bills in our legislation, we also have to change significant blocks of it. The difficulty is that I have to get someone to stamp the legislation. I am exerting maximum pressure to have exactly what the Deputy says done. He is correct that the best is the enemy of the good and there will always be a reason to have another legal assessment done of this or that aspect of legislation. I am trying to avoid that scenario and trying to hit the end of the year deadline I have set.