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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (31 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: 1175. To ask the Minister for Health if changes will be made to allow for partners to be present during childbirth and maternity appointments. [17461/21]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: My questions are for Mr. Dualta Ó Broin. Facebook's submission to the committee is very disappointing. The proposition in the legislation is incredibly modest. All it is proposing is that for the three or four weeks of a general election campaign, election ads or ads that are designed to have an impact on the electoral outcome should be designated as such; information about the way in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Will Mr. Ó Broin be more explicit about what those privacy concerns are? It is not clear from his submission.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will direct my questions to Mr. Ó Broin. It is important for committee members to be very clear. The Digital Services Act does not deal with elections. Elections are the exclusive preserve of member states. Therefore, if I understand it correctly, the Digital Services Act provides the basic set of rules that should operate around digital transparency and accountability across the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Returning to the second question, if I understand it correctly, the purpose of head 122 is to place some level of responsibility on the platform to ensure it is not accepting, and therefore profiting from, advertisements that are not compliant with the law. Is Mr. Ó Broin saying the platform should or should not have that responsibility? The regulator obviously has its parallel...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Just to be clear, Mr. Ó Broin is saying Facebook's sole responsibility would be to furnish information to the regulator, which would then have sole responsibility to ensure compliance. Facebook would have no responsibility to ensure compliance in the case of, for example, a politician placing a non-compliant advertisement on its platform.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Ó Broin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Absolutely. I will be brief because Deputy Gould has a question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Yes, or less than that. I agree with Senator Seery Kearney, but the responsibility to legislate is here. If people want, for example, anonymised accounts or micro targeting ended and better regulation of these platforms, we legislate for it here. There is no use in Government Deputies coming here and complaining that there have been 15 years of failure in self-regulation by the industry...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: ^ General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: Let us-----
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 2: In page 4, line 5, to delete "12 July 2021" and substitute "31 December 2021".
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 8: In page 4, line 9, to delete "12 July 2021" and substitute "31 December 2021".
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No. 11: In page 4, line 20, to delete "13 July 2021" and substitute "1 January 2022".
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I move amendment No.14 : In page 4, line 27, to delete "13 July 2021" and substitute "1 January 2022".
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will be very brief because time is short. I want to speak in favour of amendment No. 16 tabled by People Before Profit. To speed up the process, I will withdraw amendment No. 18. I have one point in response to the Minister. Attorneys General are like political parties. There are differences of opinion between different schools of law. When many of us make proposals that are contrary...
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of order-----
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: The Chair-----
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: On a point of order, the Minister should be speaking to the amendments-----
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: -----and not giving a Second Stage speech to avoid votes by talking down the clock.
- Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (25 Mar 2021)
Eoin Ó Broin: I will speak to all of my amendments in this grouping in one go to save time. I used the word "Orwellian" yesterday during Second Stage debate for elements of the Minister's speech and he has outdone himself in the Orwellian nature of his responses. Crucially, he has ignored key concerns that many Opposition Members have expressed and that Threshold and the Simon Communities of Ireland have...