I think it's an excellent idea. It shows that the House is keen to engage with the people and is listening to the people.
It enables people to see that the House is not only engaging with their issue but it's participating as well through debates raised on issues they're interested in.
I'm not sure exactly what the U.K. system does, but certainly the U.K. people can watch debates online. There can be a massive interest in them. There was one petition, the Hillsborough petition, and 37 MPs participated in the debate and something like 330,000 viewers watched the BBC Parliament channel that day, in comparison to a daily average of 120,000. I would say that it is a very important mechanism.