Kathryn Reilly (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister of State to communicate this to the Minister for Justice and Equality. The Minister of State stated that as part of the new UPC blocking, the system gives contact information if the person wishes to complain that the content is incorrectly blocked. This goes back to a point I made. Any Internet blocking system should have a process whereby Internet users can challenge the decision to filter before an independent judicial body. Who will oversee any complaints that are made and who will make a judgment on any appeal on that?

There have been judgments from the European Court of Human Rights on over-blocking. The Minister of State said, "there are no guarantees that all unwanted items will be captured by blocking or filtering systems". There is also a danger, as I mentioned in my comments, of over-blocking of sites that might have some kind of link or image but where these are not child abuse images. In Britain, the Internet Watch Foundation blocked Wikipedia at one stage because of an album cover that was hosted on one of its sites, so there is an issue with over-blocking. I hope the Minister can revert to me on some of these issues in due course.