A person should be able to complain directly to a new media regulator - Coimisiún na Meán - by the end of 2024 if they have concerns about a child's safety online, according to Minister Catherine Martin
A person should be able to complain directly to a new media regulator - Coimisiún na Meán - by the end of 2024 if they have concerns about a child's safety online, according to Minister Catherine Martin.
The group concluded individual complaints were feasible, but needed to be phased in and complaints could only be made directly to Coimisiún na Meán after a person had exhausted the complaints procedure with the online service responsible. "If you are looking at early next year for the commission to be set up, it would take a little while for the codes to be decided upon and set up to, and its a year after that so you are probably looking at 24, whether that be middle of the end of '24 realistically," Ms Martin said.
"What this is about is areas which are not criminal offences but which nevertheless can be really really harmful to individuals... mainly what this is about is trying to get harmful content taken down," Ms Goggin said. Ms Martin accepted that the introduction of the individual complaints mechanism would require additional resources for Coimisiún na Meán and there were"ongoing talks in relation to that.
It too had called for called for the inclusion of an individual complaints mechanism in the OSMR Bill.In a statement, Chief Executive of the Children's Rights Alliance, Tanya Ward said the expert group's recommendation to do so was"a landmark change in how we protect children and young people online."
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