Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 April 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill

Photo of Niamh SmythNiamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Part 4, which relates to online safety and harmful content online, makes this legislation among the most important this Dáil will ever pass. We all know how vulnerable young children and people are on online platforms. Up to this point, there has been no policing of that as such. This committee will be very proud of the fact we will have done something very important for our own generation and, particularly, for generations coming after us. As Senator Cassells alluded to, print media is moving increasingly into this framework and onto this platform, so this will be so important for own generation and the next, from what we have seen in politics, on restoring democracy and ensuring it is not further eroded away, this will be so important for many different reasons and at many different levels.

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