Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2022-04-28
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Micheál Carrigy (FG), Industrial and Commercial Panel

I support the comments of my colleagues. It is extremely important that we have an online safety commissioner. That was one of the main recommendations that came from the Oireachtas joint committee which looked at the Australian model which is very successful and working well. We need to follow best practice. I agree with the comment from Senator Higgins that we need people to buy into this legislation. If we proceed with this legislation and enact it but do not have a specific online safety commissioner, which is really core to what the Bill is about, it would be a wrong move. I fully support the amendments proposed in that regard.

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Sitting date: 2022-04-28