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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I thank all of the presenters. Professor Howarth mentioned that only have ten years of research and we are only learning about the impacts of methane. It seems that everything we have learned about the impacts of methane is alarming, particularly that it has a far greater impact than carbon dioxide on global warming. Professor Howarth stated that methane can be 100 times more powerful than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Slovenia and Croatia have put together a PCI for renewable energy sources and have prioritised that as their project of common interest. If Ireland was to develop renewable energy, LNG energy would still have higher priority access to the network. Is that what Mr. McElligott is saying?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I have had a wonderfully lengthy answer, which is good. Based on what Ms Walsh said, I understand that our potential purchase of this LNG is a driver in the development of liquefication plants and a terminal in the United States. It is different from the importation of mixed-source gas. As I understand it, LNG terminals can only be used for LNG, so we are specifically prioritising and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Hydraulic Fracturing Exploration: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Alice-Mary Higgins: -----upstream impact and global target production?

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: A vote is due to be called in the Seanad and I do not know if that will affect the timing of the break.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Quinn case and the Ryan family case have been very well delved into. The issue of targeted harassment is one I hope to return to in a moment, specifically in conversation with the representatives from Twitter. It is notable that in its testimony today, Facebook has told us it is not confident there is any lawful weight to its guidelines. Twitter, with regard to the Ryan case...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: It was in respect of staffing, in particular, that Deputy Connolly raised the issue. I am concerned about notification and the strong emphasis placed on the e-commerce directive and the terms "suitably notified" and "appropriately notified". It has been pointed out time and again that the e-commerce directive is wildly out of date. In many cases, individuals are not in a position to...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: That seems slightly at odds with the comments on suspending and hoping that people learn from their experience and change earlier because it seems Ms White is saying Twitter will block repeat accounts as soon as they appear if somebody is suspended.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: What about the change in policy whereby I can put up harmful content about anybody and can follow them to comment on what they are doing but they may not see that? Previously, I understood blocking meant that person would not see my content if I did not wish to engage with that person on Twitter and did not want him or her to see my content.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Publication is a fundamental issue that came up again and again. The appendix to Facebook's presentation was optimistic when it suggested an amendment to the Bill which provided that communication does not include provision of information society services. I hope and expect that would be roundly rejected because it is a very ambitious attempt by Facebook to remove itself from its...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: On the financial model in terms of targeting and its facilitation, do the witnesses believe a much higher standard of transparency and legal liability for harmful content should sit on platforms when they commercially benefit from an amplification in terms of advertisement? In terms of algorithmic rewarding harmful content by facilitating advertisements on sites that have harmful clickbait...

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Google has sought to say that the websites, where its ads appear, are the publishers and thus evaded accountability with that response in the past.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: When a Google ad appears on, for example, a local newspaper site Google has been very clear that it regards itself as not in any way accountable. What should the accountability measures be for Google?

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Please address the general question of legal accountability for harmful content within those ads. I do not need to hear about the full mechanism for advertising.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: The algorithmic reward mechanism is particularly relevant to Twitter in terms of what gets algorithmically rewarded.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: In terms of what content is more likely to appear and what content is given a higher profile, does Ms White know what I mean? What is rewarded when one has a number of followers or whatever that number a multiple of thousands?

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to move on the debate.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Perhaps we might-----

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: A written answer might suffice, in terms of the mechanisms.

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

Alice-Mary Higgins: Do the companies believe there should be a higher level of legal accountability to them for advertising or for algorithmic targeting? I do not simply want their information on their internal mechanisms. I have asked about the level of legal accountability because that is what we are considering. We have not had an opportunity to speak about WhatsApp but we know it is one of the main...