Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2022-04-26
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I have a one-liner comment because, in fact, we did not actually speak to it yet, but we will come to it in a minute. In terms of the differences in advertising, one of the concerns is some of the things that are pushed out are included in this, even when looking at what has and has not been covered. The religious issue is included in this section, the way we discussed it in terms of religious belief and so forth. However, we have not discussed other things that are very damaging and that are, again, interspace, and have an actual effect that is measurable in terms of, for example, advertisements on conversion therapy. We had amendment No. 106 and we did not speak to it at the time, but we will be bringing it back on Report Stage in terms of, for example, the advertisement of conversion therapy. We will come into that anyway when we talk to some of the questions around advertisements, and it may come under the definition of "harmful content" within advertising or commercial communications. We will come to that in a minute.
I wanted to signal that we have an amendment on that, which we will bring forward on Report Stage.

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