Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht

General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Sinéad Gibney:

We have not gone into detail on this, so perhaps this is another one I can add to in any further scrutiny we might provide in future around private communications. Ultimately, this is one of the areas the independent regulator itself will have to examine in more detail in the context of specific platforms and situations, so it will not be able to address it fully until the agency is created. We will be more than happy to do some further digging on it for Deputy Mythen.