Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 September 2023
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán on the 2023 Work Programme
Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:
We will have full capacity to discharge the DSA and enforce the online safety code. As the committee will be aware, there was a lot of discussion about the individual complaints mechanism when the OSMR was being discussed. An expert group recommended we should have a year of experience of operating the online safety code before we design an individual complaints mechanism. We intend to follow that timetable but we are also quite conscious that even before that, there may be occasions where there is a significant amount of immediate and ongoing harm being caused. We would want to be able to take action even before we have the individual complaints mechanism. That is what we are referring to in the briefing note.
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