Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Online Content Moderation and Reactivation of Economy: Discussion

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

The Minister for Foreign Affairs has previously stated in written answers to parliamentary questions that IDA Ireland operates under the aegis of the Tánaiste, so he has responsibility here and can make a political statement about whether he agrees with IDA Ireland expanding its operations into Israel at this time.

On Facebook's content moderators, the Tánaiste made the point that non-disclosure agreements, NDAs, cannot be used to prevent workers from speaking up about their working conditions and so on. I agree with that as both a formal legal position and a moral position. However, we heard last week that that is precisely what is happening. The existence of the NDAs, which the workers do not know the exact contents of, is held over them to prevent them from speaking out, talking to unions and so on. Would the Tánaiste agree that NDAs should be published so that everybody can see what is involved and so that there is full transparency?

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