Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I want to support this amendment. We had quite a detailed discussion on this in the committee. The Government needs to show leadership when it comes to political advertising, which this Bill proposes to regulate for a short period of time, during the election cycle. That cycle can be only three weeks and as many contributors have spoken about, many elections are won and lost in the intervening periods. On political advertising in general, I would totally support this amendment and I would be interested to hear what the Minister of State has to say.