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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. O'Leary. Deputy Ó Murchú is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Coffee is fairly bad as well.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I am sorry, but I will not allow a back-and-forth conversation as there are many other Deputies and Senators waiting to come in. I ask Mr. O'Leary to complete his answer. If Ruairí - Deputy Ó Murchú, my apologies - wishes to come back in on a subsequent round, I will facilitate that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: The commission is certainly increasing participation in people who go to chip shops anyway. There is no question about that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: It is a good campaign.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Any politician who has ever gone canvassing during or after “Liveline” can testify as to just how powerful the Joe Duffy mention is. If he brings up a topic, it certainly impacts. On the Unified Patent Court, I note people are not focused on it at this moment but it is an important referendum. There are quite a number of things at stake for Irish businesses, particularly in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I thank Deputy Troy. Before the witnesses answer, I will add something to what he said. There are reputable broadcasters, to use the terminology, where there is a balanced and fair approach, which may involve an interview going backwards and forwards. However, at the very end of it, there is a process, sometimes after the person who has been subject to the interview has left, whereby a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Exactly, the most famous incident being that one.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: It is a legal decision. If the vote is clear, it does not matter what number it starts at.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I will take a quick timeout in order that we are absolutely clear. Can Mr. O'Leary just speak on the issue of sequential votes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: The 1, 2, 3 should have been -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: That is what I had understood.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I thank Mr. O'Leary. Having concluded first round, I wish to pose some questions. We will then have supplementary questions from three members, by the looks of it. The core of this discussion is the area of what is legitimate political comment. I believe in what I call plus or minus 5%, which is if one believes a person or news organisation is completely balanced and fair, it means they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: There should be none.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: To clarify, and it is important that the commission takes this into account, it is not just the fact a polling station is completely inaccessible. There are a number - I suggest it is more than 20-odd - that are very difficult to access. There are levels of human dignity that people are entitled to. People do not deserve to be put in position where voting is an arduous process. We owe it...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: That is really important. I heard that postal vote answer being given. I do not really like it. Somebody has the right to access a cinema or theatre to see a film or play. It is not the case that we say to them they can wait until it comes onto a streaming service as an alternate way. Some people's preferred choice is to go and vote with their partner, their children or that their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: As someone who for a period had ministerial responsibility in that area, I am very au fait with the difficulties involved in that extension of the franchise. I just want to come back to the issue because it really is not clear. Regardless of what efforts are made to enable British people to vote in British general elections, British people who are not dual citizens will not have the right...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: Is it a European-wide Directive?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: And that supersedes the reciprocal arrangement? I hear Deputy Howlin but my point is that we specifically have put in place arrangements between Ireland and the United Kingdom to ensure that----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)
Colm Brophy: I agree but I just worry about where that brings us in terms of the arrangements for regional assembly elections in the UK and whether it becomes a disenfranchising point.