Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State said that section 108 of the 2019 Act provided that the Government would bring forward a report on the feasibility of establishing a digital legal deposit scheme. Does she know if that report was brought forward and, if not, could she ask the Minister? Would she be able to find that out for me if I cannot find it out myself?

I note that section 29 of the copyright Act introduced a provision for copyright libraries to request a publisher to deposit a copy of a digital publication first published in the State. The Minister of State mentioned that it is capturing the domains of what we are talking about but that is not a digital deposit scheme. She also said we need a legislative amendment. I am prepared to table a legislative amendment if the Minister does not table one. Over many years, I have heard there are practical and administrative difficulties but we do not seem to have moved anywhere on this.