Timmy Dooley (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

For clarity and for the avoidance of doubt, I am not suggesting that it needs to appear in national newsprint but on a national publisher’s digital platform. Many of our national publishers are migrating their activities online and I consume most of my national news from the national digital platforms of the main publishers. As for the speed and agility with which we need to move, I totally get the need to move to the Internet environment. I am not suggesting it has to appear on page 4 of The Irish Times, the Irish Independent or the Clare Champion, but that it is on a digital platform that is linked to, or owned by, a national publisher. People read the Irish Independent, The Irish Times and the Irish Examiner every day. By ensuring it is published in a national publication, albeit online, we protect the issue that I have raised in terms of ensuring it gets to the widest audience possible. It also achieves the Minister of State’s objective, which is the objective of many of the people I represent, in particular business owners, so they can deal with it quickly. As well as putting it on four or five other platforms, if that is what they wish, I ask that we include that one of those platforms must be a national publisher’s digital platform, or words to that effect. If the Minister of State's assurance to me is that she will engage with me or perhaps with one of the organisations that handles this in terms of advertisement and that it can be done through regulation, I will be very happy and I will welcome that.