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- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: As I set out at Committee Stage, the amendment would represent a significant policy initiative and, as such, requires extensive analysis and consideration with a number of complex legal and policy questions that need to be addressed. For example, it does not appear to have any basis in European law. There are also issues to be addressed regarding the rate and nature of the levy,...
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: The amendment would have the effect of obliging Coimisiún na Meán to make a report and recommendations on how the State could make available broadcasts of sports events both within and outside the jurisdiction of the State. It would also have the effect of introducing conditionality on the availability of grants from Sport Ireland to sporting bodies linked to the availability of...
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: The amendment would oblige Coimisiún na Meán to make reports and recommendations on how public bodies engaged in the distribution of State moneys for the production, screening and broadcast of audiovisual or sound content to ensure funds are distributed equitably and proportionally throughout the island of Ireland, with regard to the need for regional balance in investment and...
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: Amendment No. 38 would have the effect of preventing an coimisiún from co-operating with groups in the establishment of standards or self-regulatory systems as they relate to commercial communications. As I stated on Committee Stage of the Bill going through the Dáil, I cannot accept this amendment as it would appear to contradict the audiovisual media services directive.
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: Section 34 of the Broadcasting Act 2009, as amended by section 7 of the Bill, is drafted in line with the revised audiovisual media services directive, and allows the commission to co-operate with self-regulatory mechanisms. Articles 9(3) and 9(4) of the directive set out the requirements on member states to encourage self-regulation in respect of commercial communications, including...
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: Amendment No. 39 would require an coimisiún to make a report setting out concrete steps for how media services providers established in Ireland, including RTÉ and TG4, can make their services widely available on an all-island basis. It should be noted that RTÉ and TG4 are currently obliged, insofar as possible, to provide their services to the whole of the island. As...
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: As I noted when the issue was raised previously during this Bill's passage through the Houses, I understand the intention of the amendment and why it would be troubling for people living on the island of Ireland watching their public service broadcasters to see their part of the island of Ireland removed from maps. That goes to the core of the issue raised by Deputy Daly. However, I do not...
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: We are all in agreement on the real value of the independent radio sector. I appreciate the responses from Deputies. I will make that report available when it comes and as I said I am asking for it to be brought to me within 100 days. I will bring Deputy Cannon's concerns on the sound and vision application process to the BAI too. Although I am not accepting the amendment, I am...
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: Similar to Deputy Cannon's point, it is about the process. The Deputy is saying it is about the length of time but it is about that scheme overall so I will bring those concerns to the BAI.
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 33: In page 34, lines 12 and 13, to delete “publish, with the consent of the Minister and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform,” and substitute the following: “, with the approval of the Minister, given with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, publish”.
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: As a proud Monaghan woman, I fully agree with the Deputies on the public service value of the independent radio sector, particularly at local and regional level. I am sure Deputy Munster and I, living near each other as we do, listen to and value the same local and regional radio. Local radio stations are the very essence of public service broadcasting and, as Deputy Cannon and others said,...
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 23, line 22, to delete "following consultation with" and substitute "with the consent of".
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 18: In page 27, line 31, to delete "consent" and substitute "approval".
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 19: In page 27, line 32, to delete "approval" and substitute "consent".
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 20: In page 27, line 36, to delete "consent" and substitute "approval".
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 21: In page 27, line 37, to delete "approval" and substitute "consent".
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 22: In page 28, line 1, to delete "consent" and substitute "approval".
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 23: In page 28, line 1, to delete "approval" and substitute "consent".
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 24: In page 28, line 20, to delete "consent" and substitute "approval".
- Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (30 Nov 2022)
Catherine Martin: I move amendment No. 25: In page 28, line 21, to delete "approval" and substitute "consent".