Lisa Chambers (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I take the Senator's point on the flow of information in the public domain, what is censored and what is not, who makes that decision on behalf of all of us, whether they have the authority or the right to do that and what kind of rules or safeguards are there to make sure that censorship is in the public interest. Certainly, I thought Ryan Casey was entitled to make his comments. I do not know why that was censored. I have an idea or I could make an educated guess. However, he is entitled to make his views known and he has been through a very dramatic period and he has to live with what has happened as do the entire family. He is entitled to have his views heard by all of us because he is a victim in all of this. Well said, Senator.

Senator Cummins spoke about the energy credits and the scam that is going around. I have not received that but I understand some colleagues have. It is a very elaborate and clever scam on the part of scammers. People are becoming more aware of that, but the timing of this one is particularly clever. We will try to get the word out to as many people as possible to be careful with that. It would be very easy to click on that without realising because it looks and sounds legitimate. People need to be aware these days, particularly around this time of year. The Garda says that there are more online scams of this nature at this time of year because more of us are shopping online and we are on our phones a bit more. We need to be as vigilant as ever on these matters.