Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-21
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Paul Nicholas Gogarty (IND), Dublin Mid-West

I want to support these amendments. We have had a lot of discussions at the introductory stage in the committee. The Minister has been engaging with the representative bodies and I take that on board. However, there are still issues in relation to what should be taken on board and what should not be. This being the Report Stage before the Bill goes to the Seanad, maybe the Minister of State would give her final and absolute legal advice, because I do not see what would be wrong with putting these amendments in. If something else is highlighted in the Seanad, it can be amended at that stage. What is proposed is reasonable unless there is some absolute legal barrier. That is my tuppence worth.

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