Like her mother and my mother, Jaelynne will, thankfully, be a woman on the right side of history.

It is disingenuous to talk about hate campaigns. None of us operates here in isolation. We can all see what other people are doing and hear what they are saying. I know from my communication with the members of the Traveller community who contact me about people using their Facebook posts and platforms to target the Traveller community, a vulnerable group, that there are groups that are not safe in society, including trans groups and LGBTQI+ groups. These are the communities in society that are currently not safe from hate. We should always use our platform in here responsibly. Regardless of whether we agree or disagree with those communities, we should never make their situation more unsafe by how we drum up-----

I can only legislate for what happens in here.

Yes, I am making a point about what hate is and who we do and do not protect. Politicians correctly fight for the right to free speech but free speech cannot only apply to politicians and their actions in respect of particular communities or particular women or their statements on surrogacy, rights for trans people, LGBTQI+ people, the Traveller community or providing Irish homes for Irish people. We cannot only use free speech to suit ourselves. When free speech is turned back on those politicians in terms of how other people feel about their actions, ideologies and behaviours, they claim bullying and victimisation. If you want to be a supporter and advocate of free speech, you must expect the same to be applied to yourself. Free speech does not only mean that when I say something in this Chamber I am a bully but when you say it, it is an opinion. I am sorry but the double standards are unbelievable. They are all opinions or ideologies. We all assert them and use our privilege so we all decide which communities we want to protect or not protect. To be honest, to say people are bullies is just the sting of a dying wasp and I am here for it.