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Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I thank the Minister for coming to the House for another round of debate. Amendment No. 123, which is in the grouping under discussion, aims to broaden the scope of the provision that the coimisiún would effectively ban the marketing of salts and sugars by adding infant milk formula. We are asking that this amendment would apply to all children and not just those who have digital...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I want to follow up on something. I think Senator Sherlock mentioned it. There is a little bit of a red herring at play in some of the responses we have been having in this debate with this reference to the EU regulations. Regulation (EU) 2016/127, which supplements Regulation (EU) No 609/2013, relates to the compositional and information requirements for information on infant formula and...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Minister and her staff for their engagement with me on the issue of formula and breastfeeding. I hope there is recognition that when the Bill includes sugar and salt it must be broadened to other public health matters. I will not go over old ground because I spoke extensively on the impact of advertising on breastfeeding rates in this country and that it is no surprise that we...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Micheál Carrigy: What this Bill and this discussion have done is highlighted the lack of consultants and highlighted the fact that we, as the Government, have made those promises, announced the positions and they have not been put in place. Collectively, the Government has to take responsibility for that and to make sure both that people are recruited to fill those positions and that the numbers are...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Catherine Martin: I thank the Senators for their proposed amendments. Amendments Nos. 123 and 125 would specifically insert references to substitutes for breast milk or milk-based formulae into section 46N(5). This would make explicit the power of coimisiún na meán to prohibit commercial communications relating to infant and follow-on formulae in the context of media service codes. I recognise the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Frances Black: I have to disagree with the Minister. The Public Health (Alcohol) Act says nothing about online advertising. Section 14 of that Act prohibits the advertising of alcohol, but in tiny places. It has nothing to do with online advertising. Again, the content element of the legislation has not been implemented. While I am on the subject, I will return to the WHO report. I must put on the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I will briefly respond because this was my amendment. I appreciate and accept the bona fides of the Minister. I understand that she intends to address this issue but it would be good if the Government brought its own proposals in respect of it . It is the right of any Member of this House to bring amendments on this. There is a general strong view, shared across the House by both...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...section, political purposes mean— (a) promotes or opposes, directly or indirectly, the interests of a political party, a political group, a member of either House of the Oireachtas or a representative in the European Parliament, or (b) presents, directly or indirectly, the policies or a particular policy of a political party, a political group, a member of either House of the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Marie Sherlock: I move amendment No. 112: In page 52, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “(ba) in relation to broadcasters only— (i) that the broadcast programme material, taken as a whole— (I) adequately reflects the participation, and (II) is responsive to the interests, of members of all groups (defined by reference to gender, sexual...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: I endorse the principle of what Senator Sherlock is trying to achieve, but the practicalities of how it will operate present a challenge. I wonder if this would not be better serviced in the area of codes that can be drawn up. Part of it is also going to be about encouraging radio stations to take action. As she mentioned, quite a number of them have done that. One of the difficulties is...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: I commend the Labour Party group for bringing forward the amendment. I am aware of the work done by former Deputy, Willie Penrose, in the area who brought forward an alternative Bill in the last term. We put it on the Order Paper because of the concerns about the quota and the impact of EU rules on defining Irish music. We copied the French example and focused specifically on Irish...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The amendment is comprehensive and I will speak to two or three of its components. I am hopeful that either the Minister will accept this amendment or will bring some of its components forward on Report Stage. The reason this amendment is important is because the section in which the amendment may be inserted is the media service code section. At the moment we have the very good values,...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Malcolm Byrne: There is no difficulty, in that we all agree with what the amendment is trying to achieve, but it comes back to the fact that a broadcaster is competing with a streamer. I just happened to look up the Top 10 charts at the moment and they are predominantly dominated by men. Harry Styles is in it and Elton John is even in there. The difficulty is that if we enforce a rule to the effect that...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Fintan Warfield: ...have been discussed. My amendment No. 73 was ruled out of order, which would have required the media commission to bring forward a report on some of these issues. I am not sure how I can bring that back on Report Stage but at the very least, we should ask the media commission to report on these issues. I am just saying this to aid the process of bringing forward an amendment on Report...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: The Minister has addressed the issue of gender to some extent and indicated her intention to look to those issues. It was useful and positive that she correctly identified that gender quotas are something that can be done and there is a lot of EU legislation in respect of them. That is positive, but on the issue of reporting in regard to music in particular, again, as Senator Warfield says,...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 114: In page 52, lines 13 and 14, to delete “that in programme material audiences are protected from anything harmful or offensive, and in particular”. While, in general, there are many areas where we would like to have a more proactive preventive role, we have identified specific areas where there should be prohibitions or restrictions. In some ways,...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: Whatever resolution or proposal we may come to in respect of amendments Nos. 92 at 93 might need to be reflected or echoed in this section. Those amendments relate to harmful content, whereas this amendment relates to the media code. I imagine a similar solution can be found. I appreciate what the Minister has said. I sympathise with the fact that there need to be measures in this regard,...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 115: In page 52, to delete lines 16 and 17 and substitute the following: “(i) with due sensitivity to the subject matter and the audience,”. I am concerned about how this is framed because there could be a potential mandate for a restriction on equality, rather than supporting it. At the moment, the Bill states, "With due sensitivity to the...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Catherine Martin: Similar language is in the Broadcasting Act but to date that has not been flagged in any engagement my officials have had with the public or stakeholders. In regard to the text of the amendment, the subject matter at hand in this provision is set out in section 46N(2)(c) which states "that in programme material audiences are protected from anything harmful or offensive, and in particular...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (25 May 2022)

Alice-Mary Higgins: I move amendment No. 116: In page 52, line 19, after “mental” to insert “, emotional”. This amendment seeks to add the term "emotional" to the list of developmental categories for children which should be respected in regard to making standards and practices on broadcasts depicting gratuitous violence or sexual content, effectively anything that may impair their...