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)

Mr. Dualta Ó Broin:

To come back to where we are coming from on these provisions, if the principles are set down in the legislation for what the regulator is tasked with doing, the regulator is then empowered to engage with platforms such as ourselves to ensure we are complying with those principles. For example, the legislation provides for transparency in online political advertising. Many of the issues that arise in heads 121 to 125, inclusive, are then avoided, but two things are still ensured. The objectives of the State are met because one is ensuring there is regulatory oversight of the transparency of online political advertising but also that the regulator can evolve its approach, and can require companies to evolve their approach, in the face of emerging threats.

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