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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: We have a strict line.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: I want to hear core questions, Senator, as time is limited.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: I call the final speaker, Senator Eamonn Coghlan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: I thank the Senator. The Minister can respond to those queries and perhaps make a closing statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: You have endeavoured to answer them as fully, openly and honestly as you can. The committee appreciates that. It will help us with our deliberations in the next few days. You have identified the take down policy and the accountability. There are many common areas which we need to focus on over the next few days, particularly with the companies' representatives when they appear before the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: The committee wants to move ahead on that. It is a powerful technology for the people and the Minister pointed to the good it can do for communications. That is the thrust of the committee's deliberations over the past number of weeks. On that note, we have received a telephone call from RTE. It cannot use any of the footage of the meeting because of the interference due to telephones or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: The instruction is that we turn everything off. That is what the broadcasters want and they telephoned to make that request. I thank the Minister and his officials. We will suspend briefly to allow the other witnesses to take their places.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: I welcome Ms Deirdre O'Keeffe, Ms Siobhán McCabe, Mr. Hugh Boyle and Mr. Edward Shortt from the office for Internet safety. The relevant provisions of the Defamation Act were referred to earlier so there is no need to read them again. I ask the witnesses to explain the role of the office, particularly in respect of public awareness in terms of Internet safety. I invite Ms O'Keeffe to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: I thank Ms O'Keeffe for that overview.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: That is a good question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: That view was given by the legal adviser to the Oireachtas. That is where that came from.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: If it is helpful, I suggest we could feed that into our report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: I have to excuse myself because I have another commitment. I ask the Vice Chairman to take over. Deputies Noel Harrington, Patrick O'Donovan and Ann Phelan will be the next three members to speak.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: I thank members of the joint committee for their attendance here this morning. I have already referred to mobile telephone interference. Yesterday, our committee commenced its hearings on the challenges facing individuals, families and communities from the rise of social media, including the challenges posed by cyber bullying and on-line harassment. We have heard insightful contributions...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: She always had it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: I thank Ms McSweeney for that very detailed and comprehensive overview. Her summing up of Twitter is helpful for the committee and we will go straight into questions. I ask everyone to switch off their mobiles because anyone I see using one will not be asked to contribute. We do not want a repeat of yesterday's events. I mean this, I will be very harsh on those I see using a mobile telephone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: That is as good an example as I have heard in a long time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: I call Deputy Patrick O'Donovan now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: That is a good point but we outlined our criteria earlier on in this process and we know where we are going.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)
Tom Hayes: That point can be made in the report that we send to the Minister at the end of our deliberations.