Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Let me give an example. It would be like requiring Deputies by law to respond to every single person who contacted us. We not required to respond and do not respond to every single person who contacts us. There is a filtering system, particularly if it comes as a spam e-mail all the time. If there was a request and a constituency colleague of the Deputy decided to send him 1,000 e-mails every day, he or she would just bring the Deputy's office to a standstill. He might give the same reply to the 1,000 e-mails, but his office would come to a standstill.