I wish to support Senator Sherlock in asking the Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, to come to the House because a few of us in this House do not feel safe on social media. Never mind politicians, many ordinary people from minority backgrounds in Ireland do not feel safe on social media, now more than ever. In the past 24 hours, I have reported hate and threats of violence towards me for simply putting up quotes on social media. Facebook does not see that I am being threatened; it is the same with Twitter. It is inappropriate. I was threatened, to be honest. It is not just about me personally, it is about all politicians and ordinary people like black people, brown people, refugees or migrants, that is, ordinary people within our society. We all have freedom of speech and should have freedom of speech but when your speech becomes a threat and becomes hate towards a community or individual, it is no longer freedom of speech. What you are doing is hate speech. I do not need to give a lecture in this House because we are all trying. I credit the politicians on "Upfront" last night on RTÉ for showing their support for migrants and refugees. We want to show that support. I also called last week for the Minister responsible for equality to come into this House to reassure migrants and refugees about their safety in Ireland. Nobody is really safe around social media. We need to look at how we can keep people safe. I would not even say we need tougher laws because we do not need more laws to be able to protect our people, what we need is for Facebook, Twitter and all those apps and social media platforms to be able to act to protect ordinary citizens.

I commend Senator Flynn on her courage today again in speaking up and challenging that behaviour. She should be able to carry out her duties as a public representative without fear of prejudice, discrimination, harassment or any type of intimidation. There will be a Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight meeting tomorrow. The Leader and I will talk afterwards about measures we can perhaps take to support all Members of the House in doing their work. It is something we should be vociferous on. I thank the Senator for that.

We need to work together.

You have the full support of the Cathaoirleach, as all Members of the House do and did when the Leas-Chathaoirleach was the Cathaoirleach, in ensuring we all do our work without fear. I will be happy to talk to the Senator again on that matter. I call Senator Cassells.