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Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: Perfect.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 30: In page 32, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(13) The Minister shall within 180 days of the passage of this Act lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report on provision for a reduction in the levy in recognition of the public information service provided by independent radio stations.”. We have moved this amendment that...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister for her comments in response to the amendment and her commitment to and recognition of local radio stations and the important role they play. The difficulty I have here is that, as the Minister said, up to 50% of the cost of the levy can be met from the TV licence fee. That is not to say it will be met from the TV licence fee. As we all know well, the difficulty is...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I would like to hear a response from the Minister.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: On that basis, I will withdraw the amendment with leave to reintroduce on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I have two queries on section 7 that I want to raise. First, on the individual complaints mechanism, I have read through the amendments and it seems very vague on the powers of the media commission to force the big tech companies to deal with an actual complaint. I refer to amendment No. 118 which refers to the new section 139T(1)(a). It mentions "referring the complaint to the provider...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I will look at both issues and come back on Report Stage. I accept the point the Minister has made regarding data protection but this Bill is about online safety. We are talking about cases where safe information can be provided to people online, yet records are being erased. I ask the Minister to look and see if there are any additional powers that the commission could have in this area...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: We are dancing on the head of a pin here. What Deputy Ó Snodaigh is looking for is very legitimate. We should reflect the geographic island on which we live in how we present something like the weather forecast. Doing so does not come under any editorial independence. The island is an island, full stop. We do not want young people to get the impression that, to drive from Dublin to...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I move amendment No. 61: In page 52, to delete lines 26 to 28. I am looking for clarity here. I read section 46L(7) as saying RTÉ can waive the 20% requirement of a news service across its seven radio stations, namely, Radio 1, 2FM, Lyric FM, Raidió na Gaeltachta, Gold, Pulse and 2XM. That was never the intention of legislation in this area. It is important all of the...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: Therefore what I am saying is correct. The Minister used the example of Lyric FM but let us look at 2FM. I made the point that the only unbiased news content many people who tune into 2FM get is the news content on that station. The Minister is saying the changes she is making to the primary legislation would allow RTÉ to say that because it is providing news content on Radio 1, we...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: Absolutely, and that is not being changed by this, but the Minister is playing with words here. She may correct me if I am wrong, because I do not know where it is in the legislation and I would be surprised she is replicating it in legislation because, as she knows, in relation to her argument earlier, it is not good when drafting legislation to replicate something, and we are not...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: The Bill reads, "The sound broadcasting services established and maintained by RTÉ are deemed to be one sound broadcasting service for the purposes of subsection (5)", and subsection (5) is the requirement for 20% of the broadcasting time of the service. The Minister is saying that 20% of the broadcasting time of the service can be on one channel, which can leave other channels without...

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (25 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: Grand. On that basis and to be helpful I will withdraw the amendment but I do feel very strongly on this. It is something I will revisit on Report Stage if I am not satisfied with the officials' reassurances.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: The programme for Government committed to fast-tracking the national broadband plan because, thanks to Covid, there was a realisation at long last that delivering broadband to every home in Ireland has the potential to transform our economy, and nowhere more so than in rural Ireland. We witnessed a spike in local house prices as high-tech jobs relocated from the Dublin docks to rural...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: Sadly, the Minister still has not acknowledged that remote working has an impact on reducing our climate emissions. The national broadband plan will deliver fibre to rural areas and families, who will come off the existing fibre broadband services. That provides an opportunity to improve the quality of wireless broadband services to families who are further down the list in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (20 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 242. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he and his officials have had with regard to the present civil war in Tigray, Ethiopia; the measures that are being taken at EU and UN level to bring about a ceasefire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52678/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (20 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: 393. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the definition of separate agricultural activities under the local improvement scheme which applies to works on private roads; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52618/22]

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: The people who the Minister has been talking to in the Garda and those to whom I have been talking to are very different. I have been talking to people who are enforcing this at the coalface. There is a requirement, within three days of people changing their name by deed poll, to notify a divisional Garda headquarters somewhere in the country. This comes back to the argument we had at the...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I thank the Minister and her officials for their engagement on this. The legislation has been in the offing for the past 13 years. I thank the Minister's predecessors, Alan Shatter, Frances Fitzgerald and Deputy Flanagan, for the work that they did to progress this legislation. I thank the officials and their predecessors who I dealt with over the years with regard to this. It has caused...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: I only have a short period of time but, for example, on 13 November Shane Phelan published an article entitled "Pimps and sex offenders among those using 'right to be forgotten". In the article he pointed out that "press coverage of the activities of a criminal who was behind a multi-million-euro vice ring has been 'forgotten' by Google following requests under EU privacy law...". He went...