Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 February 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Jane Suiter:

It does but it is only on the adverts that the different platforms have said are political. There is some debate about that. That is one of the problems with this legislation, that it does not deal with issue-based ads, yet we know that many of the ads are issue-based rather than having been put out by a political party. Take the USA, where influencers were paid by different actors. Those do not come under the legislation. It is still pretty narrow.

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