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)

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Returning to the second question, if I understand it correctly, the purpose of head 122 is to place some level of responsibility on the platform to ensure it is not accepting, and therefore profiting from, advertisements that are not compliant with the law. Is Mr. Ó Broin saying the platform should or should not have that responsibility? The regulator obviously has its parallel responsibility, but should there not be some responsibility on Facebook to endeavour to ensure that an advertisement is legally compliant with the provisions of the Act?

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