Digital Services Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2024-02-08
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I move amendment No. 36:
In page 45, line 8, after "provider" to insert "or providers".
I ask the Acting Chairperson, Senator Maria Byrne, to bear with me for a moment as I have misplaced some of my notes. I can speak to it in any case.
Perhaps this amendment is not necessary. The Minister of State can assure me in relation to it. It was simply to ensure that where the complaints process is relating to persons - plural - we will not make it onerous. It is around avoiding obstacles to a complainant if there has been a failure by an intermediary service provider "or providers". It is trying to ensure-----

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