Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)

I am doing the Taoiseach a favour. This could become a very big issue if it is not handled sensitively, or if it is seen in any way that we are dragooning something through which people believe interferes with the freedom of the Internet.

Of course there are issues that concern musicians and artists and we must deal with those. However, there is big concern about this measure and I do not believe it should be rammed through. I apologise to the Taoiseach for again making reference to Germany but I was shocked to hear there is a new political party in that country, running at 10% in the polls, called the Piracy Party which relates to this precise issue.

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