Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Session 3: The State of Play in Regulation

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

We have not encountered that but I am interested to hear about those. We have been working on a narrower definition of creating legislation that would require companies to have codes and an online commissioner to vet those codes. There would be a power to serve notice on platforms where a code is deficient in some respects. The crime would be created if there was a failure to comply with notices. That is the structure we are seeking to put in place. We have not identified in that work foreign interference as being a feature of this legislation, although it would be with some of the more politically orientated legislation.

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