Ivana Bacik (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will do so very briefly. This House is a democratically elected institution and we are public representatives. People are perfectly entitled to organise emailing campaigns. This is not the first such campaign and I am sure it will not be the last. People are perfectly entitled and, indeed, justified in so doing if they feel strongly about an issue. It is up to us as public representatives to respond to and call out the individuals who email us if we believe that what they are saying is wrong or we disagree with them. We certainly can do that but we should not be critical of them in this House.