Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is a completely fair question. That is the sentence on which I have commented publicly to say it is very badly worded. To be clear, if somebody engages with me on social media in the course of an election campaign, what I would like to be able to do is canvass that person on the doorstep. If I engage with the person and he or she consensually lets me know where he or she lives, then when I am going to canvass that area and have the canvass sheets with me, I will try to speak to the person face to face. However, we do not take any information without people's consent. We do not upload any information from social media onto the Abú system. It is purely the electoral register and information related to voting intentions which we are legally entitled to collate under the Data Protection Act 2018.