An Garda Síochána
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-25
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Gino Kenny (PBP), Dublin Mid-West

We understand the police find themselves in difficult situations, but there are also question marks over where those lines have been blurred at demonstrations. Remember these demonstrations are outside where people live. Some of the policing has to be questioned. It is very light touch in comparison to what the Debenhams workers went through two years ago. There is a stark contrast in how the gardaí dealt with them and how the people who are stoking up the worst fears imaginable. The gardaí find themselves in a difficult situation in which outside forces are trying to whip up fear, hatred and division. They grow in that cesspool. It has to be acknowledged that these people have to be taken out of society.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-25