Nobody will go protest in the streets over this.
But a couple 100 single of these shenanigans and the people will ask themselves how we ended up in this mess, and everyone will jump on the divide train and blame the "other" party, when it's really equally distributed usually.
Testimony to that is that nobody opposed this hard enough to bring it down.
The only bright side to this is, it appears the governments cannot easily access all things, despite five eyes and international collaboration.
I find if a case is bad enough for a warrant, then maybe deploying a keylogger or similar would be the better way. At least then it's handled by a specialist. But delegating this to police officers? Hellno
I don't really think Helen McEntee's maternity leave is relevant either because she's in the same party as Heather Humphreys, and they are in a three-party coalition government. There's no main partisan divide like there is in the US or UK.
The last election was basically a three way tie, with a significant vote share split across another handful of small parties and independents. It's way more complex than just FG v SF.