Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)

The issue definitely warrants more time. The programme for Government states the intention to introduce primary legislation to deal with EU regulations but this has not happened. A debate is urgently required. There has already been an e-mail storm on this issue and we are about to see a hurricane if people are not satisfied.

There is a contradiction in some of the points made by the Minister of State. On one hand he does not want the courts to enforce unlimited blocking of websites yet on the other hand he wants the court to be able to grant injunctions which would block a site in its entirety. This is my understanding.

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