Mary Seery Kearney (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry to cut across Mr. Costello but that does not answer it. The fact is that anonymous parties with no accountability or transparency in respect of who they are, their political leaning, where they are or otherwise get to influence the discourse. We can look at anything that is trending in Ireland on any evening. If we follow in through it, there are accounts and the promoting of particular hashtags that put out information that is false, that misrepresent how people are elected in Ireland and what is valued in people being elected or that misrepresent the proportional representation system. There are people behind this who do not put up their names and who promote misinformation and disinformation about Irish politicians.