Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein)
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I am new to this committee and am coming late to this conversation. I held the communications and arts brief. I studied film and television production in Galway and was always conscious of Bob Quinn who, during his time in RTÉ, called for a complete ban on children's advertising. While I accept that RTÉ and TG4, which are State broadcasters, would be appalled by the loss of revenue, the difference could be made up by the State.

Mr. Macey said that the children's commercial communications code was introduced five years ago. It is up for review in the second half of 2018. I understand the limitations in regulating TV only in the digital age, but that is the gold standard for what we can do under the Broadcasting Act 2009 and the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, BAI. Does he have anything to say about the communications code and does he have any recommendations for the review? Facebook is rolling out changes today on the back of the general data protection regulation, GDPR. That is where this needs to be dealt with. Will we have no chance of marketing healthy food online if people under the age of 16 are not on Facebook?