Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I return to the Tánaiste's conversation with Deputy Pearse Doherty about online safety. On 1 May 2017, Deputy Naughten, the then Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, was quoted as stating:

The legislation is complex and slow. It's not going to happen overnight but we have a number of options. We're in talks with the industry to see if we can fast-track elements of it.

We are now in June 2019 but we are no further. We want to work collectively with the Government on the issue and to get it right. I ask and challenge the Tánaiste to lay down a timeline for when it will be done. The House should not break for the recess without some sort of timeline laid down to show that the work that needs to be done will be done on this occasion, and that we will not just move on and forget it. That quotation from 2017 is very similar to what the Tánaiste delivered to Deputy Pearse Doherty in June 2019.

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