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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Waiting Times (10 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: 263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the length of time it takes for a medical assessor to access a carer's allowance application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41516/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: I thank all the contributors for what they have shared with us this morning. I read in detail all the written contributions. I will start with a few questions on the issue of explicit images, which, according to the submission, is the main focus of hotline.ie. While child sexual abuse material seems to be its focus, I imagine hotline.iealso receives reports of more general sexual abuse...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: If hotline.iegets material that involves a young female aged between 14 and 18, what does it do?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: So hotline.ieis very much determined by whether the material falls into the category of being legal or illegal in regard to child pornography and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: In regard to the companies that also come across such material, if such material falls outside the category of child pornography but is close to it, what actions do they take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: From my knowledge, and listening to the earlier conversations, it is being suggested that people putting up that kind of content are abusing the Facebook platform.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: All the various platforms and companies have large legal sections. How many cases have been taken against users who have abused the platforms in that way? Has Facebook made such legal challenges?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: This involves criminal law only. Facebook does not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Facebook does go to civil law in such instances.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: For example, let us take a case where I put something up about Deputy Connolly suggesting she is involved in criminal activity. She could take a civil case against me, even though that content appeared on the Facebook platform. Deputy Connolly, in that hypothetical scenario, however, could not take a case against Facebook. Equally, it seems that Facebook would also not take a case against...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Who set out that mandate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: That is interesting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Yes, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Twitter, however, has not taken legal action against anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: How is consent checked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: That is the big issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: Again, Twitter has never taken legal action against anybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: It just seems bizarre. We are in here and have a certain legal privilege because we are in the Houses of the Oireachtas. It would seem the Internet almost has a similar legal privilege in that people seem to be almost able to do whatever they like and nobody can touch them. That seems to be the case, and the companies responsible for putting up and hosting this material are not prepared to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: The other area I want to move to is the area of hate speech, abusive commentary and racism. We have all seen live feeds of people going around towns in Ireland, making comments such as "look at all of the black people in this town, isn't this terrible?", and using that in a way to enable the promotion of a certain type of racism. It is almost like the modern version of the Ku Klux Klan has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Online Harassment and Harmful Communications: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Martin Kenny: I would like Facebook to answer first.