Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Session 5: Future Collaboration
Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I do not want to complicate things by throwing up questions but there is a very serious question, namely, what is political advertising. Whether it is a company such as Twitter, which takes a certain stance and has to answer that question, or whether someone takes a different view, I do not think we were able to answer that here. Some of the various collaborative measures we have seen and that have been presented to us have an urgent task in managing that. I do not think, however, we can definitively give an answer on that here this evening but it is right for us to call for the sort of moratorium, with the caveats we have presented, recognising that some of the details have to be worked out.
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