Eamon Ryan (Dublin South, Green Party)

——and how broadcasters approach that aspect of our culture and our national conversation. I was fortunate first to introduce this Bill in the Seanad where there was a very interesting, wide-ranging and well informed debate. An example from that debate showing how complex these issues can be comes to mind. Senator Rónán Mullen questioned why it is we allow advertising of tarot cards, gambling and so on, on television, but we do not allow religious advertising. That is a sensitive issue. There can be conflicting best intentions with open access to advertising and a libertarian approach. One can, with best intentions, say a topic is too sensitive and difficult and this can be abused. The way these conflicting sensitivities and best intentions are regulated is the subject of some of the codes and regulatory systems——

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