Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
General Scheme of the Defamation (Amendment) Bill: Department of Justice
Ms Karyn Harty:
Submissions were made to the Department of Justice at an earlier stage. As I recall, Twitter submitted that it would like a mechanism whereby there would be a sort of fast-track application to court to get such issues determined and it would then comply with any order made. I thought that was a very pragmatic solution in circumstances in which the company was really struggling, as Ms Caplin said, with the volume of complaints and also with the practical difficulty of determining for itself whether something was problematic. This is something that possibly should be looked at again. Those submissions still hold true in terms of the practical experience of the companies in question in dealing with this issue.
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