Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputies Ó Snodaigh, Munster and Mythen for their amendment, which seeks to add the word “impacts” to the phrase “the nature and characteristics of published material” within the definition of media literacy in the Bill so that it reads as “the nature, characteristics and impacts of published material.”

While I am sympathetic to the proposed amendment, I am confident that its intentions are covered by the definition of media literacy as a whole, which refers to the “public understanding of material published in print, broadcast, online or other media.” It is also in line with the meaning of media literacy used by the Media Literacy Ireland network in practice. The line the amendment seeks to change is contained within a non-exhaustive list of things which this public understanding may comprise.