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

Rónán Mullen: I think you will admit, Chair that it is in a good cause.

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

Rónán Mullen: The witnesses are completely ILWA - in love with acronyms. I wish to ask about two things - malinformation and pornography. The Minister, Deputy O'Donovan, recently defended the need for a national approach to combat what he called online misinformation, disinformation and malinformation. Malinformation, as I understand it, refers to information that is accurate but which might be shared...

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

Rónán Mullen: Let us say one had information that was true but likely to cause annoyance, unrest or hostility. It could be about crime statistics and particular cohorts. I do not want to get into inflammatory examples. It would not be misinformation or disinformation.

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

Rónán Mullen: Leaving aside the question of child protection for a moment, there are porn platforms that display and, therefore, promote violence against women - things like choking, slapping, etc. Is the commission active or does it intend to be active in taking on platforms engaged in the provision of that kind of so-called service?

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

Rónán Mullen: I am not necessarily talking about illegality.

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

Rónán Mullen: I will come back to child protection again because I think most people would agree that freedom of expression really has to take second place there. I just worry, and I am wondering whether the coimisiún is making it too easy for porn companies by not existing on strict age verification. At the end of the day, if I want to open a bank account, the bank will have to know for sure that I...

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

Rónán Mullen: That is the question I am asking Dr. Evans. Is he going to-----

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

Rónán Mullen: Yes, I am sorry. I thank the Cathaoirleach.

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

Rónán Mullen: What do you mean "below threshold"?

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

Rónán Mullen: The very large online platforms, VLOPs.

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

Rónán Mullen: Does the coimisiún have the power to up its level of regulation in this area? If it wanted to go for strict age verification, does it have the power to do that?

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

Rónán Mullen: However, that is a discretion matter for the coimisiún.

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

Rónán Mullen: If Ireland is unhappy with the way an organisation that has its registered headquarters in Cyprus, for example, is doing its job, being too lax or whatever, have we the right to legislate to make a more difficult environment for porn providers if we wish in order that our people are protected as we see fit?

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

Rónán Mullen: I thank Dr. Evans.

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

Rónán Mullen: You never ask a question to which you do not know the answer. I thought that was a golden rule.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I spoke yesterday about my concern about the religious orders' interactions with the State and the need for them to be very careful about being bullied by the State in the context of future redress arrangements concerning not abuse in schools, which is a very separate thing, but what happened in mother and baby homes. I do not suggest that there is not a case in some cases for redress but I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: They must not be planning on travelling in the coming days.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Think of all the money you are saving on hotels in Dublin.

Seanad: Draft Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (16 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: I welcome the Minister. I welcome the inquiry and wish the judge well. I hope the process will contribute to the processing of pain from past injustices by survivors and to their getting the justice they deserve. I am glad this commission has a broad remit to include all schools. I understand the scoping inquiry grew out of the brave testimony by the Ryan brothers and so on, but it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Rónán Mullen: Last week, I spoke about the ridiculous report of the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW, and how it wants us to rerun our care referendum on mothers in the home. That committee was not satisfied with the overwhelming rejection by the Irish people of tired modernist thinking and thinks we should try again.I now draw attention to that same...