Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 September 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission
2:00 am
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
-----but for me as a Member, when I am dealing with constituents day in and day out, I cannot screenshot and send them on a response. If I want to do that, I have to forward it to a personal email and then screenshot it and send it on to them. I cannot copy and paste any information out of my email into WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. I have a huge amount of communication via those media - Facebook, Instagram, TikTok. People want us to be accessible. I apologise for running over but this is important. I do not think me copying and pasting information out of the Oireachtas system is a risk to the Oireachtas. All of the attacks would be incoming, so for me to be unable to copy and paste information and send it on, I think there is IT overkill in that. Members have told me that in the previous Dáil, you were able to screenshot an email, send it on to a constituent and tell them here is the response I got for this parliamentary question, this rep or this query. It is just adding an unnecessary burden to our roles. It might be a petty thing-----
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