Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 June 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 Tríona Quill:

As I said, the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill was a relatively small Bill. It primarily related to the levy function of the BAI. We are integrating that into the online safety Bill. There are no substantive changes involved. The only real one is to make things a little easier for community broadcasters with regard to the levy. The other provisions of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill that were thoroughly teased out through stakeholder consultation and separate prelegislative scrutiny are integrated into the online safety and media regulation Bill. I would not say that the work for the committee has been substantially altered by the integration of the Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill.