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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2021)

Shane Cassells: I raise two justice-related issues. First, I welcome the publication yesterday by the Minister for Justice, Deputy Heather Humphreys, of the general scheme of the Garda Síochána (digital recording) Bill. This legislation will provide the legal basis for the use of body cameras by An Garda Síochána. We have seen people shove mobile devices in the faces of members of An...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: I thank the witnesses for their work and presentations. Mr. O'Keeffe spoke extensively in his opening statement about tackling disinformation and fake news. This is very apt given the day that is in it. The Facebook oversight board is set to rule today on whether Mr. Donald Trump's ban for using the Facebook platform to incite an insurrection should stand. My point applies to all social...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: Yesterday, we saw a disgraceful act by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. The Department withdrew from a 20-year salary scale agreement with county childcare committees across the country - not because it wanted to give childcare autonomy but because it decided it was not going to meet the terms of a Workplace Relations Commission from September that had...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: Following on from the closing remarks of Professor O'Mahony in respect of the request for the voices of children to be heard in this debate, as Dr. Milosevic has alluded to, we had several transition year students here last week from Kinsale and Tallaght. I will read from the submission of two of the girls from Kinsale, which states: "Sometimes it can be infuriating for students to be...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the witnesses. Everyone can agree that the past two days of hearings for the pre-legislative scrutiny of this Bill have been the most insightful and important because of the witnesses involved, with the Ombudsman for Children and the special rapporteur on child protection yesterday and the representatives here today. We are moving beyond the headline-grabbing issues into the depth...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: Is that better, Chairman?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (13 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: Mr. Church referred to the issue, even with the terrible example he gave, that this is the platform on which young people communicate. The problem is when things go sour. The question is the extent of regulation vis-à-vis the protection of children's rights. As we saw last week with the children from Kinsale and Tallaght who gave testimony to the committee, they expressed concern...

Seanad: Young People: Motion (17 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: I warmly welcome the Minister. We are discussing young people but the voice of young people has been quite prevalent in these Houses in recent weeks. Three weeks ago, students from Tallaght Community School and Kinsale Community School appeared before the media committee and discussed the online safety Bill from their perspective. Their inclusion as part of the debate was critical,...

Seanad: Affordable Housing Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the Minister. The sooner we get around to getting this Bill through the House and getting down to the work the better, because as we have seen and as Senator Byrne has just pointed out, we have lost the first quarter of this year with builders not being able to get on site and build, which is what this is all about. I said in so many debates in the previous Dáil that I often...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: I wish to raise the issue of access to vaccines for rare diseases where the vaccines are only available abroad and the cost of accessing these life-saving vaccines is prohibitive. A very high-profile case in my own county was highlighted last weekend involving a five-year-old boy called Nahyan Javed who has neuroblastoma. Since last year when a tumour was discovered behind his heart, he has...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: I welcome all our guests. This Bill concerns the regulation of all media. The main thing I noted in our guests' opening statements was that they touched a lot on advertising and their business models. Advertising and its regulation can be as prominent in terms of online harm. The Press Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Feeney, stated that social media is sucking away the resources from newspapers and...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: Mr. Ó Broin is diverting there. This issue has been tackled in Australia and our guests know that governments are looking at this. If the traditional media are dead, social media companies are not going to write the news. It was a fair question. Does Mr. Ó Broin agree with a system whereby social media companies would be paying for the monetising of news content online?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: Yes.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: Can we get an answer from Facebook and Twitter about the targeting of marketing and advertising to children under 16?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: Good afternoon to all our witnesses. If I may turn to RTÉ and Mr. Coveney first, I welcome the second part of RTÉ's Truth Matters campaign, which it launched this week. It is very much welcome in the context of addressing the dissemination of misinformation, which, as we have seen, has been highly important during the pandemic. I note the language RTÉ used this week when it...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: Does Mr. Coveney think such advertisements should be banned from social media and that political parties and politicians should not have paid advertisements popping up on people's Facebook timelines?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (20 May 2021)

Shane Cassells: It was a question more to the representative from Virgin, a Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Jun 2021)

Shane Cassells: There has been much debate in these Houses in recent months concerning the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020. Recently, on the far side of the globe, the world's most advanced recycling centre for construction waste opened in Sydney. This $100 million facility uses ballistic separators and optical sorting technology to process 7,000 tonnes of waste daily,...

Seanad: Right to Housing: Motion (4 Jun 2021)

Shane Cassells: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I pay tribute to Senator Fitzpatrick for tabling the motion. She has been a tenacious battler in advocating for the right to housing and the importance of sustainable housing. Her contributions on this topic in the year since she came to the House, both in this Chamber and in committee, have been very significant. Many will ask what it matters...