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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: I thank the witnesses for the presentation. In our deliberations we are trying to drill down into the social media phenomenon. As I said to Ms Sinéad McSweeney, the representative from Twitter, this in itself is a raising of awareness. I think the public is sometimes not aware that when on social media the same rules apply as in the print media. When I look at Facebook, I am amazed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: -----but to try to raise awareness and steer people in the right direction in respect of their rights on social media, if they are suffering from abuse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Twitter and Facebook (7 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: How do we compare to other countries? Do the same issues arise with Facebook in other countries? Have other Governments asked Facebook to speak to them?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties Collection (13 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will re-examine the 22% rise in cider excise duty as announced in Budget 2013 in view of the following the additional 22% in excise duty is crippling for many Irish craft cider makers as they cannot avail of the 50% rebate system; the Irish craft cider industry produces 0.5% of the amount consumed by this country, and has directly and indirectly created...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Line Rental Charges: Discussion with Commission for Communications Regulation (14 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: The question I wish to ask is about the roll-out of broadband. Even though we say we are providing it to the rural areas, it is not whether one can get broadband but the quality of the broadband one is able to receive. What is ComReg's role in the quality of broadband that people receive?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Line Rental Charges: Discussion with Commission for Communications Regulation (14 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: How would a person apply to take part in that scheme?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (20 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the possibility of contracting narcolepsy from the flu vaccine in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if there are many persons here to whom this has happened; the number of persons; the reason he has ceased communication with the support group Sound which is working with victims of this affliction in County Kilkenny...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: My question relates to the complaints issue raised by Deputy Dessie Ellis. I have not participated in the virtual world as frequently as younger generations and, in some ways, politicians are playing catch-up. Perhaps other politicians are more adept than I am. Are the complaints YouTube receives in other jurisdictions similar to those it receives in Ireland or do they differ, particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: They are not in that space every day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: The Department of Education and Skills and especially the Department of Children and Youth Affairs are the two Departments to which the Government must link. If we were to link with Google-YouTube from now on, would it be able to monitor whether there was an increase or decrease in the number of complaints about bullying on its systems? If we were to devise a scheme now, would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Social Media: Discussion (Resumed) with Google and Digital Rights Ireland (20 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: I thank our guests for their very detailed presentation. There is a great deal of legislation in place, but enforcement seems to be lacking. The volume of traffic on these social networks is so huge that the mind boggles in terms of how one might even begin to trawl through all of the relevant material. It is always possible to deal with serious crime because the relevant laws are in place...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sponsorship of Major Sporting Events by Drinks Industry: Discussion with FAI, GAA and IRFU (27 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: I apologise for missing most of the presentation. I was driving from Kilkenny this morning and the conditions were not great. Since I come from Kilkenny I could claim that I probably know more about the GAA than I do about the FAI or rugby but we will claim Seán O'Brien, who is from Carlow, as well and there is no problem with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Sponsorship of Major Sporting Events by Drinks Industry: Discussion with FAI, GAA and IRFU (27 Mar 2013)

Ann Phelan: I must thank them for our annual outing to Croke Park every year. It strikes me as a paradox that at Government level we are discussing a drink-dependent society but the irony is that we are discussing sporting organisations which are dependent on what drinks companies give them in sponsorship. That is a paradox in itself. I understand the concerns of the delegation. We are here today to...

Topical Issue Debate: Animal Feedstuffs (16 Apr 2013)

Ann Phelan: I must ask the Deputy to conclude.

Topical Issue Debate: Animal Feedstuffs (16 Apr 2013)

Ann Phelan: I must ask the Deputy to conclude.

Topical Issue Debate: Animal Feedstuffs (16 Apr 2013)

Ann Phelan: Deputy, please do not. I indulged the Deputy and allowed him one minute.

Topical Issue Debate: Animal Feedstuffs (16 Apr 2013)

Ann Phelan: I ask the Minister of State to reply. He has two minutes. He need not worry about my indulgence, but I will need to explain the matter to the Ceann Comhairle if we go over time.

Topical Issue Debate: Animal Feedstuffs (16 Apr 2013)

Ann Phelan: I take the Minister of State's important point.

Topical Issue Debate: Animal Feedstuffs (16 Apr 2013)

Ann Phelan: Please, Deputy. Allow the Minister of State.

Topical Issue Debate: Animal Feedstuffs (16 Apr 2013)

Ann Phelan: Please allow the Minister of State to reply.