Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Clearly, any member here is free to meet whoever they wish outside, but we ask you to be mindful that you are not being used as a conduit for different lobby groups to put pressure on you to feed their views back into the committee. I ask you to be conscious of that. Obviously people will meet whoever they wish, but we have a very clear remit with regard to the bigger picture, being objective and sticking to our terms of reference on using the evidence base.