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Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Do they take down illegal content?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: However, they probably do not do so in a very speedy sort of way.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am definitely going to say apologies if I do, and the witnesses should feel free not to answer, but I do not really mean it. That is my level of disinformation and misinformation. Some 90% of complaints are coming through Coimisiún na Meán on the basis, obviously, of us being home to some of the online platforms. This is a follow-on from my previous question. It is the...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: The big question is how to deal with the algorithms, the recommender functions and other things that make a huge amount of money for the platforms but create a huge amount of the difficulty we see regarding misinformation and disinformation, which can be used by everybody from chaotic characters right through to organised entities, both governmental and non-governmental.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Yes. I did not hang around just to listen to the Chair.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: To follow on from the previous questions, I refer to the Trump Administration and the position it has taken regarding freedom of speech. Sometimes, I think people want to protect certain types of freedom of speech and not others. One can foresee that this will cause issues in terms of the work that Coimisiún na Meán, the European Commission and others want to do in this particular...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Mr. Evans spoke about the idea of stronger information or data gathering powers. That makes sense, but what exactly are we talking about and what does the commission need? Are we talking about things such as agent bots, storage capacity and cloud computing in relation to going-----

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is about streamlining it.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It is not a capacity issue.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Does the commission not need any of those things?

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No, I meant in the sense of going out and finding it. Seek and destroy, if you will.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 67. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the Independent Covid-19 Evaluation; and if any other means of inquiry is being considered for those who have lost loved ones in nursing homes (details supplied) during the pandemic. [47696/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 72. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the EU-Israeli Association Agreement review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47603/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on the Kallas' options paper, and on the engagements he, or his Department, have had with other EU states from a point of view of implementing some of the options as a means of sanctioning Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47604/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, and the possibility of dealing with services as well as goods, and any other sanction on Israel that is available to this State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47605/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Relations (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his and other Departments' engagement with the EU and US in relation to the possibility of tariffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47606/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Relations (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 76. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for an update on his and other Departments' engagement with industry and employees in relation to the possibility of tariffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47607/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 77. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on any recent engagement there has been between his Department and the Palestinian Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47608/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 78. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the current number of passport applications being processed; the total number of passports issued to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47609/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (17 Sep 2025)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 79. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has considered a default, automatic renewal application email, and any other means of streamlining the passport application process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47610/25]