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Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Dr. McIntyre. He has put another slant on our thinking in his presentation today. I move to my colleagues. They are limited to three minutes each because it is a shorter session. I call Deputy Munster.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I ask the witness to bring her contribution to a close because we have gone over time. I want to give Dr. McIntyre the opportunity to respond to Senator Byrne.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: What are the witnesses’ thoughts or views on the definition of cyberbullying in the Bill?

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: That brings the meeting to a natural conclusion. I thank Mr. Herrick, Ms Cronin and Dr. McIntyre for their presentations. The meeting has been most insightful and we had a good opportunity to interrogate those ideas and thoughts. It will certainly assist the committee in our pre-legislative scrutiny as we proceed. I also thank members for their engagement. We will adjourn until 12.30...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I welcome our guests and my colleagues. It is great to have them all here again for what will be a very exciting and insightful presentation. I have a bit of housekeeping to go through and I would ask our guests to bear with me while we do that. This meeting has been convened with representatives of Screen Producers Ireland and the Joint Creative Audiovisual Sectoral Group as our ninth...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Ms Kirby. She has given a very good insight. The numbers employed in the sector are impressive and, as she said, are growing. They have gone from strength to strength, prior to the pandemic, of course. I am sure that will inspire a lot of questions from the members. I now invite Ms Hamilton to address the committee on behalf of the Joint Creative Audiovisual Sectoral Group and I...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I thank Mr. McCabe, whose video was excellent. I am a great believer in a picture painting a thousand words and that has been achieved so eloquently and in such a sophisticated way in his video. I thank him for going to the trouble of making it for our committee and presenting it to us. Without further ado I will move to our members, who will have a slightly longer time of five minutes...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I have given Senator Cassells as much latitude as possible. I have to move on. We might be get to bring him back in.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: We seem to have lost Mr. Hickey.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: Yes, we can.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: The case is very well made. I thank Senator Byrne for his questions. As Senator Warfield is not available I will make a contribution. I thank the witnesses so much for covering this entire sector, up, down, inside and round about again. We very much appreciate that. From my knowledge of my colleagues, the witnesses are speaking to the converted. Many of us have been watching TV over the...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: It brought me back to many moons ago and a famous producer and director, Shane Connaughton, putting the village of Redhills, County Cavan, firmly on the map globally. The impact of that on such a tiny village was phenomenal. We would like to see more of the same. There is no reason a screen tourism mapping of the island could not continue for many years after such an event. Perhaps that...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: Ms Callery makes a very compelling argument. We can all hear that in her voice. Speaking as someone who worked in the arts, it is frustrating to think of the creatives who have to go through the tedious job of putting applications together for the patchwork of funding and convincing people to give them money. That happens even before they enter the real creative process of making a...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: I thank all of our witnesses-----

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2021)

Niamh Smyth: That brings the meeting to a natural conclusion. I thank Ms Kirby, Ms Hamilton, Ms Callery, Mr. McCabe and Mr. Hickey for their insightful, helpful and enthusiastic presentations to the committee. We really appreciate it and it will be very helpful to us as we continue our pre-legislative scrutiny. I also thank my colleagues for their insightful engagement with our guests. We will...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (15 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance if the rent-to-buy scheme will continue after 2021. [31752/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: 355. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to reintroduce the restart grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31196/21]

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (2 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: Members and our guests are very welcome to this virtual meeting. We are delighted to have them with us. I ask our guests to bear with us as we have some housekeeping matters to get through. We will then proceed to hear the presentations. Will members ratify the minutes of the private committee meeting on 26 May 2021 and the public committee meeting on 27 May 2021? Are there any matters...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jun 2021)

Niamh Smyth: We will move on to our session today, which is a continuation of our pre-legislative scrutiny of the online safety and media regulation Bill. I welcome witnesses to the meeting. They are joining us remotely through Microsoft Teams. I welcome Ms Kathryn Walsh, policy manager with the Irish Heart Foundation. I know Ms Walsh well and I am delighted to see her here. I welcome Ms Orla Twomey,...