Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Commissioner for his contribution today. I have a couple of questions about last week. Around half four last Thursday, we were advised to leave Agriculture House, that it was unsafe and that we were to pack up and go. That is what TDs were advised. If we were being advised to leave and be out of the city, surely that would have signalled that something was going to get out of hand. I presume that message came from the Garda to the officials here in the Oireachtas to evacuate the building. At that stage should the Garda not have been stepping up the response? In the Commissioner's timeline that is about an hour and a half before things got out of hand as he says and as they did. I am just wondering about the timing of responses.