Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The debate reflects the difficulty we face. We came up with the topic of harmful content, which is a very subjective term. There are some examples of behaviour such as those we discussed earlier that we all agree are clearly reprehensible and should be criminalised, but once we start going further down the line, it gets far more difficult and ambiguous. I do believe people have the entitlement to abuse others, not just in the political sphere. People can be abusive and we must be very careful about criminalising behaviour that is not clearly reprehensible behaviour such as the examples about which we spoke. I thank the witnesses. We must come up with solutions at the end of this process.