Niall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)

As I set out, the national counter disinformation strategy explores the challenge of disinformation in Ireland, its harmful effects on society and its complexity as a policy issue. It is important to state that it is not the role of our Government or, indeed, any regulator to decide on individual instances of disinformation.

As mentioned, one of the fundamental aims of the strategy is to promote resilience in people to support media literacy and high-quality journalism to help people to make their own decisions about what is or is not disinformation. Having published a strategy in April, we are moving to implementation. A steering committee has been established and had its first meeting on 20 June. Actions are being progressed which support the commitments in the strategy.

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