Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 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)

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

I thank our guests. I have a question for them myself. The theme of harmful content and hate speech has been something that has reoccurred on numerous occasions with many of our presenters to date. With regard to the objectives and functions and the membership of the new media commission, are the representatives satisfied sufficient oversight, checks and balances exist within the general scheme, as outlined, to ensure the balancing of rights? I will go to Ms Gibney first and perhaps Dr. Michael would like to come in on that as well.

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