Catherine Martin (Dublin Rathdown, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 60 addresses a matter raised by Senators Higgins and Ruane on Committee Stage regarding a requirement for coimisiún na meán, on the direction of the Minister, to provide its statement of strategy to relevant Oireachtas committees. This will allow the strategy statement to multiple Oireachtas committees where, for example, an coimisiún may be fulfilling functions of policy interest to those committees.

Amendments Nos. 61 and 62 address a matter raised by Senators Higgins and Ruane on Committee Stage regarding the co-operation agreements an coimisiún may enter into with bodies within and outside the State. The purpose of these amendments is to require an coimisiún to provide the joint committee with a copy of any co-operation agreements it enters into and publish any such co-operation agreements on a website maintained by it subject to the consent of all parties to the agreement any redactions that may be necessary. I thank the Senators for raising these matters.