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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: For example, let us take a case where I put something up about Deputy Connolly suggesting she is involved in criminal activity. She could take a civil case against me, even though that content appeared on the Facebook platform. Deputy Connolly, in that hypothetical scenario, however, could not take a case against Facebook. Equally, it seems that Facebook would also not take a case against...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Who set out that mandate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: That is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Yes, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Twitter, however, has not taken legal action against anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: How is consent checked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: That is the big issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Again, Twitter has never taken legal action against anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: It just seems bizarre. We are in here and have a certain legal privilege because we are in the Houses of the Oireachtas. It would seem the Internet almost has a similar legal privilege in that people seem to be almost able to do whatever they like and nobody can touch them. That seems to be the case, and the companies responsible for putting up and hosting this material are not prepared to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: The other area I want to move to is the area of hate speech, abusive commentary and racism. We have all seen live feeds of people going around towns in Ireland, making comments such as "look at all of the black people in this town, isn't this terrible?", and using that in a way to enable the promotion of a certain type of racism. It is almost like the modern version of the Ku Klux Klan has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: I would like Facebook to answer first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: That is just taking each piece of content. If the same content is coming from the same organisation or individual, is there precedent for the company to say that this organisation or individual will no longer have access to the platform? That would be a start.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: I suggest that the companies should go further than that, but that they should take court action against them for abusing the platform. Facebook is saying it does not agree with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: There seems to be a contradiction in what Ms White says. Earlier, in reply to Deputy Connolly, she spoke of the idea of counter speech, that Twitter allowed a conversation to happen so that others from a counter view could get in and put their piece in. That might be all right at one level but at another I wonder if it is part of a big picture which Twitter is trying to create. From the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: One of the difficulties is that all of the platforms, in particular Twitter, provide an abrupt form of conversation. It is short. One cannot get into the detail of an argument on Twitter. One just puts out a paragraph at most. From that point of view, it is difficult to see how counterspeech can work, given that all one ends up with is a whole lot of people shouting at one another. Ms...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: I wish to raise a couple of other issues. Young people in particular use many of the platforms. We hear of young people who are self-harming, sometimes to the extent of suicide. Much of that comes from pressure they have been put under online. We often discover in the aftermath that various complaints were made but material was not removed from online in spite of people's requests. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Senator Higgins is anxious to be able to ask her questions.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Hospital Services (10 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: 12. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the diabetes service in Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41165/19]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Hospital Services (10 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: We are back here again. This is the umpteenth time I have asked this question around Sligo diabetic services, particularly with regard to people with type 1 diabetes and access to the insulin pump. I gave the Minister a letter earlier which stated that, back in June, 30 adults were waiting to get access to this service, but they cannot get access to it because there is no specialist...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Hospital Services (10 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: I appreciate that offer of a meeting and, undoubtedly, that will be taken up. I also gave the Minister a letter from Grainne McCann, the manager of Sligo University Hospital, in response to a young woman of 18 years who has been recommended to use the insulin pump. Her letter stated:Unfortunately, we do not have the resources to facilitate commencement of the pump therapy at this time. In...