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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Maye, Mr. O'Callaghan and Mr. Duddy for their presentation today which is very thought-provoking. There is certainly room for a debate on the way in which our banking model works in this State. However, our primary concern is the post office network and while I accept that the PBFI is offering a potential solution to the maintenance of the network by the creation of this bank, I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome both presentations. I thank Mr. McRedmond, who set out what this is about, namely, restructuring An Post. It is a commercial, semi-State company and that is its mandate. Mr. McRedmond has to look at viability in terms of profit and loss. He has a responsibility to the shareholders and the board of directors to exercise his fiduciary duty, and he has done that. The Minister's...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Timmy Dooley: This is important because it gets to the nub of the matter. I have also picked that up from some media interviews the Minister has given where he talked about "some or all" of the business. If "some or all" of the business includes social welfare payments, there is no difference between him and me. If all the business can transfer to another business in the community, that will be a result...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Timmy Dooley: I would like absolute clarity on this point. Is the Minister saying that it is possible that the postal agency model can be made available to other businesses in these 159 communities with the capacity to provide access to social welfare funds or payments?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Timmy Dooley: As transactions have reduced so much, does it not make sense to do it and not put intolerable burdens on the people concerned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Impact of Retirement Packages for Postmasters: Discussion (4 Sep 2018)
Timmy Dooley: Is Mr. McRedmond happy to engage with elected representatives in the next number of weeks to look at the extension of the postal agency already referred to?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: I welcome Ms Sweeney and Ms Cummiskey and thank them for attending. They have always made themselves available to the joint committee and Members whenever they have raised issues. I have considerable sympathy for them in finding that they have to appear before the committee again to address issues of such a serious nature. While I accept that they also found the material deeply disturbing,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: Facebook knows the account that posted the material.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: It might not be a bad place to start and let law enforcement carry on from there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: To clarify, in this instance, did CPL create the material without Facebook's knowledge?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: What did it have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: CPL sourced material other than the material provided by Facebook.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: Can Ms Sweeney state categorically that nobody in Facebook was aware that the material had been changed or that this material was being used?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: To clarify, Facebook never sanctioned use of the video of the child being abused as an example of material it would retain but mark as disturbing and put beyond the reach of someone under the notional age of 18 years.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: For the purposes of clarity, Facebook is not categorically denying that it was aware of the material.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: I will simplify because this is important. Can Ms Sweeney categorically say - and she does not have to - whether it is possible that somebody in Facebook was aware that this video of the child being abused by its stepfather was being used as part of an overall training programme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: I will be honest with Ms Sweeney; I am none the wiser. What I am trying to understand is how material like that gets used to assist in training moderators. It was very clear to me when I looked at it again that this was an example of material that Facebook would not delete even if it was requested to delete it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: -----and that so long as it was put beyond the wall and that it was indicated that it was disturbing material, anyone over 18 years of age could look at it and share it all around the place. I have concerns based on what Ms Sweeney had told me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: Ms Cummiskey and Ms Sweeney are not prepared to say that nobody in Facebook was aware that it was being used by CPL however.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Moderation of Violent and Harmful Content on the Facebook Platform: Discussion (1 Aug 2018)
Timmy Dooley: Just for completeness, when the investigation Facebook has under way is completed perhaps it will provide the material to this committee, insofar as it can. Would the witnesses make a commitment on that?