Dáil debates

Tuesday, 5 February 2019

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business

 

3:40 pm

Photo of Richard BrutonRichard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We have debated the issue of a digital safety commissioner at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment. It was agreed there that I would seek legal advice on the definition of "harmful material" because there is a category the committee wants to identify, harmful but not unlawful. There is no definition in the existing Bill and there are variants on this. The challenge for us is to find a robust set of definitions of what is harmful for the purpose of setting up the code and an enforcement method for take down. I am working with the Attorney General to develop proposals in that area to bring back to the committee.

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