Lynn Boylan (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

We had a history with having a rights-based legal system in our country so it would be going back to what we originally had. I have one or two more short questions. I was particularly struck by what Dr. Ní Shúilleabháin said about the very polarised debates that are taking place within the media. The media have a job to do. They have to get viewership and some would say there is a clickbait element to certain debates. Our public broadcaster has been in the media for the entire summer. It has a responsibility, over commercial media, to tease out those issues and to not always go for that polarising aspect, such as about culling the herd. All these things are very simple sound bites but are very hurtful to people who feel they are being attacked if it is their industry. It is not that simple and we need to start having those conversations and - I will not say educating because that sounds patronising - informing and having the sort of deliberative discussions the witnesses had in the citizens' assembly. It is the responsibility of our public broadcaster in particular to serve that function and allow those debates to take place so people do not feel they are being attacked but are part of a process of change.