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Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: This group of amendments made during the Bill's passage through the Dáil seeks to clarify that the jurisdictional test for when a relevant online service which is not a video-sharing platform service is established in Ireland is set out in Article 3 of the e-commerce directive. Amendment No. 14 contains the substantive section, a new section 2C to be inserted into the 2009 Act....

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: Senators will recall that during the debate in the Seanad, I signalled that "party political programme" was intended to have the same meaning as "party political broadcast", namely, the short programmes carried on our public service broadcaster during electoral periods for the purpose of promoting a registered political party. The term "programme" was used in lieu of the term "broadcast" to...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: To provide flexibility, the provision refers to "specified times" rather than "electoral periods" to allow coimisiún na meán adapt to any change in policy in this regard. It will be a matter for the electoral commission. This will allow coimisiún na meán to change if anything happens at the electoral commission. It gives a flexibility to adapt but it is a matter for the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: During the Seanad Committee and Report Stage debates on the Bill, a number of Senators indicated they considered the provision that prohibits broadcasters and providers of video on-demand services making available programmes which may reasonably be considered to cause harm or offence as being potentially contrary to the principles of freedom of expression. At that stage, I committed to...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: This group of amendments is intended to allow coimisiún na meán to make media service codes which promote gender balance on news and current affairs programmes on radio, television and video on-demand services, and to promote the broadcasting of musical works composed or performed by women on radio services. A key goal of mine, as Minister, is to further gender equality within...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: The purpose of this group of amendments is to provide absolute clarity that coimisiún na meán can dismiss a complaint in circumstances where it has already been effectively resolved under a code of practice prepared by a provider.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: This is a technical amendment to remedy a drafting error in the Bill. This amendment will ensure a section 70 contractor can continue to benefit from the exemption as set out in section 71(3) of the Broadcasting Act 2009.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: Amendments Nos. 70 and 71 remove the statutory requirements for RTÉ and TG4 to establish and to maintain their respective teletext services. This change was agreed in consultation with our public service broadcasters and is considered important to allow progression from outdated technologies with very small viewerships.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: These amendments are intended to address an anomaly by removing the reference to "terminal". This change, though largely technical in nature, will future-proof the prominence rules to allow them to reflect continuing changes in the ways in which audiovisual content is accessed and viewed.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: This group of amendments inserts into the Bill provisions which require that coimisiún na meán must give reasonable notice of an audit to a provider of its designated online service and to provide an opportunity for designated online platforms to make submissions in respect of an audit report prior to its publication. This is to ensure legal clarity on the operation of these...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: Amendments Nos. 92 and 93 are to clarify that coimisiún na meán may make online safety guidance materials on the risk test for non-offence specific harmful online content and may make online safety guidance materials on matters relating to the online safety aspects of the Bill rather than simply in general. Amendment No. 94 is a consequential renumbering amendment.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: These amendments will add existing offences from the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017 relating to online flashing to the schedule of offence-specific harmful online content in the Bill. This will enable the online safety commissioner to make binding online safety codes that will apply to designated online service providers and that will require those providers to take measures to...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: The purpose of these amendments is to ensure appropriate remuneration and expenses are agreed and paid to appointed authorised officers. Of course, it is already the case that authorised officers who are members of an coimisiún staff would be remunerated. These amendments, however, will ensure any other individuals, such as external subject experts, are also appointed under terms and...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: The purpose of these amendments is to require coimisiún na meán to state the geographical area in which the action required of an online service addressed by a content limitation notice is to be taken. This is to provide legal clarity in that regard.

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: Amendments Nos. 274 to 277, inclusive, provide for consultation on preparing content production schemes between an coimisiún and Screen Ireland and provide that anyone can apply for funding under a scheme. Amendments Nos. 287 to 290, inclusive, allow for the Minister to provide by order that Screen Ireland may make a scheme and that an coimisiún should fund one. Amendments Nos....

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: Gabhaim buíochas leis na Seanadóirí as an spéis a léirigh siad sa Bhille agus an mionscrúdú a rinne siad ar na forálacha. As Senators stated on the first day we debated this, the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill is crucial legislation. It modernises the regulation of the media ecosystem in Ireland and lays the foundations for the new regulatory...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: The National Concert Hall is funded through a combination of Exchequer funding and income generated through its commercial activities. The salaries of its staff members are met from a mix of Exchequer and commercial revenues. As such, the information sought by the Deputy is a matter for the National Concert Hall, however I can confirm that at present it has 12 staff members in its Marketing...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: As Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media I have responsibility for appointments to the Board of Fáilte Ireland.  Appointments to State boards are made via a process managed by the Public Appointments Service (PAS), which operates a dedicated website, www.stateboards.ie, through which it advertises such vacancies.  Since this process was put...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Museum Projects (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: The National Museum of Ireland plays a valuable role as one of the custodians of Ireland’s National Collections. This work encompasses not only the collection, preservation and display of heritage objects and artworks, but also educational activities that facilitate the public’s understanding of items in the collections and the broader context in which they were produced. A...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff (6 Dec 2022)

Catherine Martin: The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media was formed in September 2020 Staff in the Department are civil servants. The Croke Park Agreement encompassed all civil and public servants and no distinction was made between categories of civil servants under the Agreement. The link to the Croke Park agreement which references the Civil Service and Non-Commercial...