Ms Celene Craig:

I do not see my colleague online so I will take the Deputy's questions, if I may. I will deal first with the issue of gender-based violence. The point we would like to make in this regard is again in reference to the categories of online harm specified in the general scheme, categories which we support. Under head 49A, category (b), "material which is likely to have the effect of intimidating, threatening, humiliating or persecuting a person to which it pertains and which a reasonable person would conclude was the intention of its dissemination" is specified as a category of harmful online content. While one might consider that gender-based violence or harm caused online to be included within that definition, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI, is very concerned about the specific targeting of women online, in particular, although not solely, those in public office, women politicians and women journalists. There has been significant targeting of such people, which we believe has the potential to cause real harm. The BAI believes that there might be some benefit in giving a level of specificity in this regard within the Bill. An alternative might be to require the media commission to specify within an online code that gender-based violence, or any kind of sexuality-based violence such as homophobic content, is to be considered as forming part of that particular category of online harm. That is where we are coming from on that issue.

With regard to advertising limits, the BAI's position on advertising limits has for some time been that there is a value in the media regulator having oversight of all of the advertising limits rather than having a broken-up system in which there is some role for different parties such as the Minister and the media commission. It allows for differentiation in the allocation of minutage and a singular policy approach across different forms of media, having regard to different factors that impact different media. That is our main purpose in making that recommendation.

The Deputy also talked about the steps the media commission would take. Will he repeat that question?