Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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I congratulate Ms McKay. It is nice to have new blood. I am interested that the number of complaints going the whole way through the system is very low but the overall number of complaints is substantial. She mentioned Twitter and Facebook. It goes back to the code of practice. At least with a print edition, there is accountability and clarity and it can be followed up compared with fake news online, which has become very prominent since Covid. Has the Press Ombudsman received complaints about scaremongering or fake news during Covid? The print media has a set of rules but it is the opposite with Facebook or Twitter, which do not seem to be as strongly regulated.