Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome all our guests. I wish to continue the discussion on concerns around the use of SLAPPS. In recent days, there was a high-profile case in the High Court in Belfast. I would like to get an understanding of the significance of that judgment and the implications it may have for freelance journalists and broadcasters across Northern Ireland and Ireland. A judge said that the case had the hallmarks of a SLAPP case and also deemed it to be scandalous in its nature. How concerned are the witnesses about the increase in the number of defamation cases being taken by politicians, in respect of the judgment made on 8 January?