Annie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Ms Mulkerrins is absolutely right that the chilling effect of such material appearing online is huge. As I said, we do not necessarily see the same swath of stuff online that may be uploaded in the US, for example, but that does not mean it cannot happen here. We have all seen the footage online of escorts and all sorts of things happening, with people having to help women into facilities and so on. That has a chilling effect. The witnesses have made a really helpful observation because it would not have occurred to me to consider what activity may be taking place beyond the 50 m or 100 m and how we deal with that. It is helpful even for my own thinking. It just did not occur to me to think about how to deal with activity outside the zones.

I wonder whether there is a flip side. I see pictures online of people protesting outside places. Would this work the other way in that it would apply also to people recording those doing the protesting or is it the case that because the proposed legislation deals specifically with people who are accessing services it would apply only to them? Does that make sense?