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Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I move amendment No. 102: In page 80, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “(2) The Media Commission shall produce a directive outlining appropriate minimum age requirements for children to create online accounts within 12 months of its establishment.”. This is a straightforward amendment designed to prevent children from having access to material that is...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I understand what the Minister is saying and I understand that things are happening on an EU-wide level. However, I believe children need protection now and that the commission is more than capable of regulating on this. Last night I spoke about advertising targeted at children. Self-regulation is little or no regulation because they are the overseer and the judge and jury. It results in...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: From the point of view of children's rights and protection, it is disappointing that neither of those will be included. We will resubmit on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: We are taking amendments Nos. 111 to 113, inclusive, together. For clarity, is amendment No. 113 putting additional requirements on service providers? It appears that way and I just want clarity.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I would like to comment on amendment No. 118, which is a whopper of an amendment.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Yes, they were grouped together at the time.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I had a couple of queries. I missed this in the grouping at the time.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I just have a couple of queries. There was a grouping and there may have been some confusion on my part. I had jotted down a couple of questions in regard to section 139T. What exactly are the sanctions in that regard and to what other parties can a complaint be referred?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: It is section 139T.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: What are the sanctions?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I wanted to double-check that. To what other bodies can a complaint be referred? Is it just the list in the Bill?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: That would be helpful for clarification. With regard to sections 139W and 139Y, these refer to the committee getting copies of the schemes. I want to know if it is expressly this committee that will get copies of those schemes.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Could we request that?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Section 139W refers to data that would be under the remit of the committee for scrutiny.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Are there restrictions on who can make a complaint? I was asking this of the Departments the other night. For example, is it only people in Ireland or does it include the EU?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Thank you. That is just for my own knowledge.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: The amendment refers to "Online content by which a person intentionally engages in offensive conduct of a sexual nature contrary to section 45(3) of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017". How can the intention of a person be judged? That is the first question that springs to mind. Should it not just be that unsolicited pictures of this type are an offence, full stop? If a person...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: As I said, if a person claims it was not his or her intention to cause fear or distress in sending an unsolicited picture of a sexual nature, does that mean that no offence has been committed?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: Is that something the Department or the Minister would look at?

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2022)

Imelda Munster: I know that, but it is not great if a person who sends an unsolicited picture to another person can claim that an offence has not been committed because he or she did not mean to case distress or offence. This is the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill. It is about online safety. I am flagging up that the provision is not necessarily strong enough.