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

Ms Niamh Hodnett:

Since Coimisiún na Meán was established, it has been meeting with all of the platforms, including the platforms the Senator discussed. We have had good engagement from all of the platforms, including the platform the Senator just mentioned. We have had ongoing engagement with its public affairs team and we have had good engagement to date. Obviously, these are introductory meetings that we have been having with all of the platforms. When we adopt our online safety code it will be binding and at that point in time, we will move to enforce that using our tools under the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022. In the interim, we have been consulting all the platforms on a range of matters and have had good engagement and responses both to our call for inputs and also to our designation of video-sharing platform services as a category of services to which the online safety code will be applied. We have adopted that decision and our category designation of video-sharing platform services. That designation is now in place and the next step will be to adopt the online safety code and that can be applied to that category. I will hand over to my colleague Dr. Evans to respond on enforcement under the Digital Services Act.

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