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Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will withdraw the amendment and reserve the right to reintroduce it.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 201: In page 102, lines 14 and 15, to delete “all actions or claims howsoever arising in respect of the exercise of those powers” and substitute the following: “a first or second action or claim arising in respect of that officers exercise of these powers but will not indemnify an authorised officer in respect of a third or further action or...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 202: In page 102, line 40, after “practicable” to insert “and not less than 8 months”. The amendment adds a caveat to the provision that, as soon as practicable after the completion of an investigation, the authorised officer would prepare a draft report of the investigation. At the moment, the Bill refers to it being done as soon as...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I note that necessity and proportionality are significant in this regard but they are not encompassed in the word "fairness".Necessity and proportionality have a significant legal meaning, for instance, in relation to data protection. These sections allow for the seizure of interpersonal communications, for example, communications between individuals. The scope of the Bill is such that it...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 203: In page 104, line 15, after “fairness” to insert “, necessity, proportionality”.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 204: In page 104, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “(3) The Commission shall publish any guidelines made under this section, and any amendment to or revocation of those guidelines, on an accessible website maintained by it.” This is a simple amendment. It provides in respect of the rules made under section 139ZF that the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: In light of the Minister's engagement, I will withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 205: In page 107, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “(5) Where a judicial review is taken in respect of a decision made by the Commission under this section, the decision of the Commission shall stand pending the outcome of such a judicial review.”. The amendment seeks to find the balance between the right to take judicial review,...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I am not questioning the taking of judicial review in any respect or the process around that but I seek clarification. My question is around what happens while a judicial review is taking place. If the commission makes an order and a judicial review is taken against it, as is the right of any person to do, what happens in the interim? Will the Minister clarify if the guidelines or...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 206: In page 107, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following: “(5) Not less than 20 per cent of the money recovered under subsection (1) shall be used for the purpose of promoting media literacy and digital empowerment.”. This amendment seeks to ensure that the commission uses some of the moneys recovered from financial sanction to enhance...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: If we are trusting the discretion of the commission in this regard, I would trust the commission to be acting only as appropriate in this context as well. When we have bad online practices, such as those we have been discussing, one of the aspects that is taken advantage of is a lack of media literacy, online skills and awareness of people's rights, and what is or is not appropriate in...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will withdraw it and come back to it on Report Stage. I will lobby in the meantime.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 207: In page 117, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: “(aa) where the content appears to the Commission to fall within the category of age-inappropriate online content defined in section 139D, requiring the provider to restrict access to the content to persons who have attained the age of 18 years, or”. This amendment adds another...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I note that in the discussions we have had, including discussions with the Minister's officials, regarding content, whether that is harmful content or other age-inappropriate types of content, those conversations have not simply been around the content but also concerned the manner of content delivery. This is why what I am seeking to provide here, in the context of a possible situation...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will withdraw it now and bring it back on Report Stage. I urge the Minister, however, to really consider this matter because it is important.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have a number of small amendments in this grouping. To be honest, the most fundamental and most important amendments have been put by the members of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media, Senators Cassells and Warfield.They reflect the views of the Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media and those amendments are fundamentally in tune with the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: On the issues of origin or ancestry, I do not agree that they are really captured and that they are the same. Ancestry covers, for example, people who may be second or third generation Irish and that is fine. It is good that is covered. Origin also covers persons who may only have spent a period of time in Ireland. I do not agree that ancestry covers those things. I urge the Minister to...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 211: In page 130, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following: “(6A) No provision of section 22of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022shall apply to this section.”.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 216: In page 131, line 18, after “the” where it firstly occurs to insert “diverse”.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 217: In page 131, line 19, after “Irish” to insert “origin or”.