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- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Is the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, taking this?
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: No. The Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, is not too far away I am sure.
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We will get the show on the road.
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Sections 1 to 10, inclusive, agreed to.
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
SECTION 11
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Seán Sherlock: I move amendment No. 1: In page 9, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(2) The risk referred to in subsection (1) means a risk greater than the risk facing children generally, when being adequately taken care of in a private home.”. Section 11 states: The Principal Act is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 58J: ...
- Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: In welcoming Deputy Funchion, I extend warmest congratulations to her on her election to the European Parliament. We will be sorry to lose her from this House, where she has contributed really significantly over the years. We will miss her presence.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Sections 1 to 4, inclusive, agreed to.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
SECTION 5
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 1, 2, and 4 to 8, inclusive, are related and will be taken together.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 14, to delete "person" and substitute "online service, intermediary service provider and/or hosting service provider". The amendments in this group are submitted to ensure and get confirmation that levies cannot be levied on an individual. I am disposed to supporting this legislation, but I am reserving my position depending on the explanation...
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy O'Reilly for her amendments. The Deputy is the only party to engage with amendments on the Bill. I oppose the amendments. I understand the intention behind them. However, the reference to "person" as a legal term is defined in the Interpretation Act 2005, which provides certain general rules of the interpretation of a particular word. In Part 4 of that Act, entitled...
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: There were a lot of words there. Am I right when I say that the individual, in other words, the person as referred to, is an entity but that entity could only be one person? Does the Minister of State see where I am coming from in terms of an individual?
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: Yes.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: There is a small amount of ambiguity in the wording and that was the reason for the amendments. It was as much to prompt the debate as anything else. If the Minister of State is saying that where there is an individual involved, he or she is regarded as an entity. That makes sense. If that is the clarification, I am happy to accept that.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: That is the legislation, as read. I think the Deputy is trying to make sure that ISPs do not use an individual to avoid-----
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Yes.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: The Deputy's amendment could allow them to do that inadvertently.