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Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: To pick up on some of that, I do not think everything in the world of online safety needs to be attached to any sort of accreditation. Again, that is placing it in a particular framework in terms of people accessing education and training and having awareness of online digital safety. That does not bring it right down to a community level where people are not engaging in gaining...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Does the Minister want to come back in briefly on that?

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to add my voice to the amendment. In the context of our discussions on the use of recommender systems and so on, they very much tie in with the banning of gambling advertising and with ensuring the advertising is not as targeted as it tends to be, with the profiling and microtargeting people. The issues are related. I will support the amendment but we need to strengthen the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I wish to speak amendment No. 107 in my name. I missed the fact that it is included in this grouping. I have some queries in this regard because the definition made it in without the other definitions that qualify it because they were seen as creating a cost to the State. Yet this amendment allows for the definition of "political purposes". I intend to withdraw this amendment because it...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 32: In page 22, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(1A) Not less than 3 members of the Commission shall be women.”. Both amendments are pretty similar and seek to ensure gender parity among the membership of the commission. The Bill, as authored, makes few provisions relating to the membership of the proposed media commission. This...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 33: In page 22, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(2A) Of the members of the Commission, including the chairperson, not less than 2 of them shall be women, and in a case where there are 6 whole-time members, in addition to the chairperson, not less than 3 of them shall be women.”.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: As Senators, there are a number of areas that we cannot make proposals on regarding the online safety commissioner mainly relating to the resourcing of the commissioner itself, rather than just the resources for the commission in general. We see an online safety commissioner potentially overseeing a regulatory framework which would include but not be limited to the development of binding...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 37: In page 22, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: “(3A) The Minister shall agree with the Public Appointments Service the selection criteria and process to be implemented in respect of the filling of any vacancy on the Commission. These amendments are related. They relate to the make-up of the commission in terms of experience. Again, we...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 38: In page 22, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: (3A) In making recommendations for appointment of persons to the Commission, the Public Appointments Service shall have regard to the need to ensure that the members of the Commission broadly reflect the nature of Irish society and that such persons possess knowledge of, or experience in— (a)...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 46: In page 24, lines 24 and 25, to delete “, where the value of the interest exceeds €5,000". The Bill, as it stands, includes arbitrary thresholds with respect to the financial interests that a prospective commissioner may hold in a provider of communications media. To ensure absolute independence, it is preferable that no member of the commission...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 47: In page 24, lines 26 and 27, to delete ", where their aggregate value exceeds €13,000".

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 48: In page 24, lines 30 and 31, to delete ", where their aggregate value exceeds €650".

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 53: In page 29, between lines 3 and 4, to insert the following: "(6A) All members of a committee established by the Commission shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be subject to the same requirements to disclose interests under section 37.". Amendment No. 53 inserts a subsection providing that, for the avoidance of doubt, members of a committee established by the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: The amount of committees I am on-----

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Amendment No. 64 is really about financial independence. The Bill provides that the Minister may advance moneys to the commission, provided by the Oireachtas, and with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. The Bill does not specify whether any such advancements will be subject to the oversight or approval of both Houses of the Oireachtas, as we see in other...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: I move amendment No. 64: In page 31, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following: “(1A) Any such financial advancements will be subject to the oversight and approval of both Houses of the Oireachtas, prior to their being advanced to the Commission.”. I am struggling to understand the Minister of State's response in relation to broadcasting contracts. Would the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: This is Committee Stage so I can come back in on the Minister of State's response.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Usually proposers can come back in on their amendments when the Minister or Minister of State has given a response on Committee Stage. This is not Report Stage. The first three amendments in the group are Senator Higgins's amendments. My name is first on amendment No. 64. We have dealt with Senator Higgins's three amendments and mine is next. I had to wait until we reached it-----

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Yes.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Lynn Ruane: Perhaps there is a misunderstanding on my part here. I am not suggesting that the Oireachtas has to oversee every single decision that the commission makes about expenditure on broadcasting contracts and so on. The amendment relates to advancements and yearly budgets. Maybe there is a misunderstanding on my behalf but I am not really following the response from the Minister of State. He...