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. Ronan Costello:

We have a dedicated website - I am happy to send the link to the Deputy - for law enforcement to submit such requests where it is seeking either content removal or basic user information to further an investigation. That website has been up for several years. Because of Dublin's position as Twitter's headquarters for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, it is here where we host a Europe-wide training session, typically annually, which includes An Garda Síochána. We work with law enforcement to train its members up on how to submit requests that are properly specced such that we can expedite a case and work with them in as efficient a manner as possible. There is a dedicated website for such law enforcement requests, which may arise from the legislation the Deputy mentioned.

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