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Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 75: In page 38, line 3, after “data” to insert “, where necessary and proportionate”. These amendments seek to ensure that the actions the commission may take are fully true to the letter and spirit of our obligations under the general data protection regulation, GDPR. Personal data may be disclosed to a number of different bodies. I am...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank the Minister for her engagement. Many of the concerns I have outlined in the amendments could be addressed by an appropriate data protection impact assessment. I recognise there is some necessity for proportionality in subsection (2), but I still have concerns with regard to regulations downstream. Data protection impact assessments are not necessarily long or arduous processes,...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: As I expect that we may engage with this issue on Report Stage if the expert group has reported back in the meantime, and recognising the Minister's willingness to engage on amendments Nos. 80 and 81, I will not press the amendment.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 76: In page 38, to delete lines 8 and 9.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 77: In page 38, to delete line 10.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 78: In page 38, to delete lines 31 to 37.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 79: In page 38, line 34, after "Commission" to insert the following: ", having made all reasonable effort in the first instance to contact and seek the consent of a relevant complainant, considers making a disclosure if necessary".

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 80: In page 38, between lines 41 and 42, to insert the following: "(2A) Where an individual’s personal data is disclosed under this section, every reasonable effort shall be made to inform the individual of that disclosure and the relevant circumstances.".

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 81: In page 39, between lines 30 and 31, to insert the following: "(5A) Prior to making regulations under subsection (1) or subsection (2), the Minister shall subject the proposed regulations to a data protection impact assessment.".

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: It is.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: We are speaking on amendments Nos. 82 and 83.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: That is fine.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: This is the point to come in.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Amendment No. 82 was co-sponsored by my colleague, Senator Black. The Minister would be aware of the excellent and extensive work Senator Black did in the past on the legislation on alcohol control and that area. We had very lengthy discussions on advertising and self-regulation and on the very significant concerns in that area around the inadequacies of self-regulatory mechanisms. It is...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I hope that every sector will seek to regulate itself as well, but the concern here is this is the commission in relation to that self-regulation and its relationship to them. That is part of the concern.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I would nonetheless say to the Minister that while language, in terms of encouraging self-regulation, is one thing, assisting in self-regulation is quite a different thing. That is part of the concern. I would like an indication from the Minister on whether she is looking at the language that is being used in terms of the way the commission is to engage with the self-regulatory systems and...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: One of the clues to the concern was in that comment to the regulatory. We need to be honest. These are sectors where at the last moment self-regulation has been brought in. I could cite multiple examples. For example, as soon as there was to be an EU regulation on 40% women on boards, suddenly the 30% club appeared as a voluntary mechanism where we were all suddenly keen to voluntarily...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The last point is that the amendments specifically address the area of commercial communications rather than, for example, the Press Council or others.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 84: In page 42, to delete lines 18 to 23. There is an exemption from the disclosure of interests and my amendment would seek to remove the exemption from the disclosure of interests. Section 37(2) states that requirement for a disclosure of interests does not apply to a person who is entering a contract or proposed contract of employment or a contract or proposed...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Section 37(2)(b) allows for a proposed contract of services. There is one situation where employees who in terms of section 37(2)(a) are members of staff of the commission but it is a case of contracted services in section 37(2)(b). I would like the Minister to specifically address whether she has that same concern in regard to section 37(2)(b).