Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 17 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017 and the Influence of Social Media: Discussion

2:00 pm

Ms Niamh Sweeney:

Not at this point. The Deputy may know that there should be information associated with the page. In a lot of cases that will be accurate information and it will represent the particular group, but at this point, we do not have the functionality where we can say explicitly who has paid for the advertisement.