Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 101:

In page 78, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(da) online content by which a person makes available disinformation or false information which is intended to mislead;”.

The purpose of the amendment is that it is an obvious omission if disinformation or false information are not included. The Bill will have a gaping hole if they are excluded from it. The joint committee recommended that they be included when we were doing our pre-legislative scrutiny and I am wondering what the Minister has to say about that. We had two Departments in last week to discuss the DSA, and they said that it only covered online. They said there was an ongoing process of a national disinformation strategy or something of that nature. However, they could not point to anything or give any definitive information. They said the Government was not in a position to table an amendment. Where is disinformation covered then?