Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 5, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following:

“ “Act of 2009” means the Broadcasting Act 2009;”.

These are technical amendments. In transposing the directive, the Bill lists every domestic measure in the Schedule to the Bill, which transposes the EU legislation that is covered by the directive. Since the publication of the Bill and its commencement through this particular process, the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media transposed a further measure which falls within the scope of the directive and, therefore, I am now including it in the Bill. This is the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022, which transposes directive 2010/13/EU, the audiovisual media services directive. Specifically, Articles 9 to 11, Articles 19 to 26 and Article 28B of the audiovisual media services directive are relevant here. The proposed amendment that we are discussing is inserting the relevant provisions into this representative actions Bill so consumers can take an action if they suffer an infringement by a trader or a service provider.

The second Government amendment relates to metering for heating, cooling and domestic hot water. This regulation has already been signed and its insertion into the Bill is necessary to allow for the collective redress mechanism to apply to it.