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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Can I say something on that point? This is a communications committee. The Members of the Oireachtas have been asked on several occasions to minimise the amount of paper we use. Deputy Seán Kenny and I have brought our laptops to recent meetings of the committee with a view to trying to reduce the use of paper. We have been told we cannot use technology that has been given to us by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: With the greatest of respect, the problem seems to be confined to this committee room. We do not seem to have this difficulty when we meet in the other committee room.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am concerned that we are being asked, on the one hand, to take a more technological approach to our work and, on the other, to switch off technological devices. The Minister stated there is a robust set of legal measures in place for defamation and referred to section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act, which deals with harassment. The Act deals with direct...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: To follow on from Deputy Harrington's question, suppose one does not have a Twitter and Facebook identity or presence, how does the office for Internet safety monitor likely activities, because that is where the young people are? If the organisation is not actively engaged in it, how does it monitor likely activities?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: It is clear from the Minister's presentation that the Internet Service Providers Association of Ireland has no role and is not legally responsible for content. The companies we will be dealing with in the coming weeks are. With respect, I think that is where the office should be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: They are not the driver.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: On a point of clarification, is the sole role of the office for Internet safety one of awareness raising? I asked if it had a role in terms of legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: On a follow-up point, to return to the original question I put to the Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, in terms of the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997, has the issue been discussed by that committee and, if so, has a recommendation been made to the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does Mr. Boyle know how many prosecutions have been brought?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: In terms of the anomaly identified by the Minister in the context of communications with or about somebody, is the office aware of that anomaly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Has the office made any recommendation for a change to be made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I asked about staff numbers and the annual costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (6 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: Does the office feel it is sufficiently resourced?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (7 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a gun licence is removed from a person and is not renewed within a number of years can the Garda have the gun destroyed. [12119/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Civil Partnerships (7 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a heterosexual couple can register their relationship as a civil partnership; if not, his plans to introduce same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12133/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Ms McSweeney for appearing before the committee today. Following on from yesterday's meeting, it is very clear from what the Minister has said, what was already known to this committee and what the company has confirmed today, that the biggest problem we have, in terms of people vindicating their good name, whether in the print or social media, is the inaccessibility of the court...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: We know now where we are going but for the future, we must consider this also. Regardless of whether something nasty is said about someone in a broadsheet newspaper, on radio or on a social medium, the biggest problem is that the courts in this country are the preserve of the rich.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: It was raised in an article in the Irish Examiner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the representatives from Facebook for appearing before the committee. I will put the same questions as I put to the representatives from Twitter. It concerns Monday's edition of the Irish Examiner where a representative of the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals suggested that the social networks ought to have a dedicated liaison officer whose job would be to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (12 Mar 2013)

Patrick O'Donovan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he expects to bring forward the Foreshore and Marine Area Development Bill, in order to ensure that ports and harbours are better positioned to plan their development into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12340/13]