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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: Sorry, Senator, I am going to ask you to stop now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: Senator, you cannot make an allegation. I ask members not to engage with the Senator.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: Sorry Senator, you are going to withdraw an allegation of political bias you made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: You have just accused somebody of political bias. I ask you to withdraw that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: And you withdraw her allegation of political bias.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: No. You made an allegation which effectively was to accuse someone of political bias. Do you withdraw that allegation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: No, I want you to withdraw that allegation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: Mr. Barry Andrews MEP does not have an ability to defend himself here because he is not present.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: Mr. Barry Andrews is an MEP and has a public platform so he is capable of responding. However, we just have to note the fact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: Sorry, to be absolutely clear, Senator, I did not say that. Other members of the committee raised the veracity of the issue with you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: I wish to make it 100% clear on my own behalf that my role as Chair is only to enforce the rules and regulations governing how a committee conducts its business in compliance with the regulations laid down by the Houses of the Oireachtas. I am not taking any position on anybody's statements who are members of this committee. That is all I do as Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: I thank the Senator. Mr. Godfrey, there are many questions for you and your colleagues. We will give you time to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: I will take the opportunity to pose some of my own questions. For me, it comes down to a number of areas. I have covered this with some of the other people we have had before the committee. Coimisiún na Meán's role, as Deputy Howlin alluded to earlier, involves almost a conflict between its declared role in the supervision and doing that in conjunction with the platforms and not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: Does Coimisiún na Meán have any role in channels that are effectively on platforms - the equivalent of Sky or Virgin Media or anything like that? Mr. Godfrey is saying that the country of origin is the primary regulator for that but the content of those channels is being provided and redistributed through an Irish service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: Deputy Howlin has indicated and then I will come back in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: If members want to come in and continue this conversation I will just ask Deputy Howlin to conclude the discussion and take over as Cathaoirleach, as I need to do something at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combating Disinformation: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Colm Brophy: Sorry. I understand that. I was referring to the guidelines.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Colm Brophy: 333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans to address the inadequate number of school spaces available for children with a moderate intellectual disability in the Firhouse/Knocklyon area of Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19287/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Apr 2024)

Colm Brophy: 565. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if attempts have been made by his Department to secure all mother and baby records which were kept by private nursing homes in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18884/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Colm Brophy: On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. David Donoghue, who is a former senior official at the Department of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Donoghue served in several senior leadership roles, including his final appointment as Ireland's permanent representative to the UN in New York. Also joining us today are representatives from Coalition 2030. We are expecting to be joined online by Ms Meaghan...