Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Dualta Ó Broin:
There are quite a number of questions there. I will focus on one or two and if I do not get to the answers now, I might get to them while replying to other members.
On the length of time involved, the goal is to get content which violates our community standards removed as quickly as possible. We do not have a strict turnaround time on that. Our goal is to get to it as quickly as possible. With the advances we have made in artificial intelligence, AI, in recent years we are getting to a lot more content before it is even reported to us, but that is an ongoing process and we will continue to evolve and improve our services.
I wish to respond to the point about interpersonal communications services because that is important. Currently, there is one line of justification in the general scheme. Interpersonal communications services are being treated as just another category of service that the media commission should regulate, but we see them as being a very distinct category of service where there is a huge amount of existing Irish and EU law and ongoing judgments from the European Court of Justice on what private companies and what-----
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