Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
All-Ireland Economy: Discussion (Resumed)
Professor Edgar Morgenroth:
What happens on social media and outside of social media certainly disimproved the culture of debate. As politicians, members are probably more aware of this. It does not happen to us too often. Some things get a lot of attention. I remember publishing a report on Brexit in 2015 and it got a lot of attention but it was positive attention. This report got all sorts of attention, which does not happen too often. We are not in the firing line too often but I can see politicians in particular are very unfairly treated in some of those debates. It is very nice to have a debate, we can disagree about something here in terms of numbers but it is all done with respect and so on, which is what we should have more generally.
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