Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Bill 2025: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-21
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Aengus Ó Snodaigh (SF), Dublin South-Central

I welcome the fact that the Minister of State is taking on board that there may be a need for further examination. In some ways, when you put amendments, you hope you are proven right but you are also hoping you are proven wrong because that means the officials and those who are better at drawing up legislation have covered the angles where, on this side of the House, we sometimes see an issue, and have tried to plug a hole that has been exposed.
In this instance, I am more confident in these amendments than some of the amendments I tabled in the past over the vast time I have spent here. I was not always as confident as I should have been in tabling those amendments but, in this case, the amendments have been well-crafted and well-considered. They are coming from practitioners, such as the collective management organisations, CMOs, which understand the intricacies of copyright, some of which is very intricate. It is not for you or me. Maybe that is one of the reasons there have not been as many referrals to the controller. Maybe it is because people have not been able to understand the full effect of the failure to get the proper remuneration and income they are due.
I hope that before this goes any further than the Dáil and into the Seanad that further examination and additional stress tests are done on the legislation the Minister of State is proposing. Maybe in the Seanad they will take on board some of the proposals I have put here.

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Sitting date: 2026-01-21