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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

...country and the resources are available to ensure everyone has what is necessary. The narrative coming from the Government, especially since January 2024, focused on getting tough and cracking down on immigration, followed by a rowing back in the context of policies supporting people seeking asylum. It has been reported that there are empty beds in the asylum system, while people seeking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...she said about communicating with the Minister. Last week, a debate on the arson attacks took place in the House. During it, quite a number of political groupings focused on issues with the immigration system, the failures of that system, communication issues and all the rest of it. I feel we have reached the point where there is almost a legitimacy being given to those who block...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

...the individual came to live in New Zealand on 17 August 2017, it was with a fully-developed terrorist ideology based on his adoption of the Great Replacement theory and his associated beliefs that immigration, particularly by Muslim migrants ... It also states: We see the terrorist attack as resulting very much from an unhappy conjunction of his personality ... his financial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

...and class-inclusive narrative that includes everyone in our community. How do we speak to the real issues that are happening to people on the ground? The far right is distracting us right now and immigration is coming up in the polls when it should be housing, healthcare and the cost of living. We have seen this happening across Europe whether it is in Poland, Hungary or Italy. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...for pretty anti-migrant stuff. I have to say - and the Chair may pull me up on this - we have Gript Media here in Ireland, which seems to have taken an editorial decision to heavily focus on immigration, and I am being kind there with regard to what it does. Now it has a pass here to Leinster House. There is money to be made from this stuff. How do we challenge that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

...instance, gardaí were verbally abused and had fireworks aimed at them. This is now the subject of a criminal investigation. During 2023, 45 arrests were made by An Garda Síochána relating to potential illegal activity at anti-immigration protests in the Dublin area, alone. To date in 2024, 11 arrests have been made in the Dublin metropolitan region relating to potential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Ms Angela Willis: One measure relating to an increase in behaviours associated with anti-migration and anti-immigration sentiment is the number of protests there have been. In 2022, slightly more than 300 protests were recorded in the DMR alone. By 2023, that figure had increased by more than 100%, to 617 protests. That is an indication of an increase in anti-migration sentiments. As...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., and the family home is now regarded as a legitimate target. Is the Garda adequately equipped to deal with the deepening of this as it becomes more poisonous? How does it deal with the accusation that anti-immigrant or anti-accommodation-centre protesters are being allowed to flout the law and therefore normalise themselves in the national consciousness?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Thomas Pringle: For the sake of argument, if someone is distributing a leaflet around an area and online that is full of untruths and lies about immigrants and subsequently, a couple of weeks or months later, a place in that area mysteriously burns down, surely that leaflet plays into the incitement that was used to carry out that particular crime.