Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I do not do bad things like certain people across the Atlantic in regard to these matters. I will not name any names. That type of gathering of information is to some extent facilitated and recommended where people are using it to analyse large volumes of information. We have to keep a eye on that as well to ensure it is not misused. I do not believe there is anything in the Bill that would make that a problem but at the same time it is something that would concern me.

Those are the main issues I wanted to raise. As I and others have said, this legislation is quite complex. It is a balance of rights and interests between the person who has created the material and those various bodies that use it, whether they be libraries, archivists, schools or people who are rebroadcasting and presenting material through various means. It is important for those whose lives it affects directly. The more public knowledge there is on all these matters, the better. Most of us are quite ignorant of them until it affects ourselves. In some cases somebody will have created something new and positive and somebody else will recognise that there is a benefit in that and may well benefit more than the person who has come up with it originally and that may be because that person did not know exactly how to protect their own rights. It is important this type of information is available. My party supports the Bill.

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