Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
Does Mr. Dualta Ó Broin accept that we seem to have different rules for different media? This Bill permits providing online political advertising to a content provider, which clearly states it is not in the news space, yet we ban political advertising on radio stations, which are often very good-quality local and authoritative sources of news. I believe there is a discrepancy there. Following what Twitter has told the committee, does Mr. Dualta Ó Broin believe there is an argument to ban online political advertising?
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