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:

We do not believe it should be for companies such as ours to make the decision on where the line of truth is. In political debate and discourse there can naturally be different perspectives on certain things. We are, however, committed to external oversight to ensure our standards and policies are exactly where they need to be. That is, for example, why the external oversight board was established. It oversees the decisions made and it is the final arbiter of the decisions we are making regarding content. The board is also going into other areas and recommendations, and we are engaging with it on those. It comes down ultimately to the question of who should be the arbiter of what the truth is when it comes to political speech.

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