Mr. Art O'Leary:

I thank the Senator for her kind words. I should use the opportunity to give a shout-out to the small team currently working at An Coimisiún Toghcháin, the Electoral Commission. They have been working night and day from the time of the constituency review last year. We really hit the ground running and have had a number of discrete projects. They have been working very hard. In the past couple of weeks, we have had hundreds and thousands of phone calls, emails and all sorts from the Irish people, who are really engaged and very curious. They want us to tell them what a durable relationship is and so on. People are engaged. We are delighted to be in a position to do this. It is a space where we believe we can make a real difference to democracy and that is important.

On the issue of misinformation and disinformation, something that has not come up yet - the Senator touched on it - is the issue of deepfakes and artificial intelligence. People are more conscious now, ever since they saw the picture of the Pope in a puffer jacket. That was a moment where the penny dropped that all of these things are possible now. Since, we have seen Arnold Schwarzenegger singing Whitney Houston songs and all sorts. When it is obvious it is easy for people, but we need to work much harder in that space to support them. We are very happy to take calls, emails and contacts from anybody. If you know somebody who is struggling with an opinion, give us a call and we will be happy to talk them through it.