Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Non-court-based Conflict Resolution Mechanisms for Media-related Complaints: Discussion
Mr. Daniel McConnell:
I echo what Mr. Dooley has said. First, the abolition of juries would radically improve the situation. Second, the serious harms test was well articulated by Mr. Dooley. Third, the defamation law going through is not perfect from our perspective. It does not give us everything we are looking for. The industry is under significant pressure. The win for us as an industry, and for democracy as a whole, is that we have a fair system, a speedier process of reconciliation, accommodation or conciliation, and that justice is seen to be done fairly and quickly.
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