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- 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.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: Inadvertently. I understand, but that was not the intention of it.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Amendment No. 2 not moved.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Amendments Nos. 3 and 9 are related and will be discussed together.
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Louise O'Reilly: I move amendment No. 3: In page 5, between lines 23 and 24, to insert the following: "(5) Nothing in this Act shall allow for the collection of levies for any reason other than funding the regulatory work of the Commission and the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.". The amendments in this grouping have been submitted to seek clarity that levies can...
- Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (26 Jun 2024)
Dara Calleary: I thank Deputy O'Reilly. In opposing amendment No. 3, I want to give the Deputy some background. The levy is designed to be cost-recovery in nature and is not revenue generating. It is to recover the costs incurred for the activities undertaken by Coimisiún na Meán and the CCPC in their work in forcing the digital services regulation or the terrorist content online regulation. ...
- Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)
Question put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 86; Níl, 60; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Cormac Devlin and Hildegarde Naughton; Níl, Deputies Denise Mitchell and Pádraig Mac Lochlainn.
- Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)
Tá Cathal Berry, Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Peter Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Seán Canney, Ciarán Cannon, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Jack Chambers, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Barry Cowen, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy,...
- Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)
Question declared carried.