Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2022-04-28
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Lynn Ruane (IND), University of Dublin

As Senators, there are a number of areas that we cannot make proposals on regarding the online safety commissioner mainly relating to the resourcing of the commissioner itself, rather than just the resources for the commission in general. We see an online safety commissioner potentially overseeing a regulatory framework which would include but not be limited to the development of binding online safety codes that set out regulated online services or deal with harmful online content and conduct. My amendments in this area were deemed to create a cost on the State. Again, it is probably something that one could argue about because this is potentially already supposed to be part of the commission's job description anyway. It is really just about determining how that work is done and what the commission focuses on. Perhaps between now and Report Stage we could potentially see Government amendments on the online safety commissioner, its functions and also the potential staffing requirements of such a commissioner.

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Sitting date: 2022-04-28