Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Challenges Facing the Technology Sector: Discussion
Ms Una Fitzpatrick:
From an industry perspective, straightforward transposition is really what we are looking for. That would be a straightforward transposition across all 27 member states. What we do not want is 27 different sets of rules. We have an example in the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill. It is to be hoped that the Bill will work out well, but it related originally to the transposition of the audiovisual media services directive, which is now two years overdue. We are not being looked on favourably from a European perspective in respect of that transposition, and that has done reputational damage to Ireland. The last thing we would want to do, therefore, is say again that we cannot be trusted to transpose European directives.
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